{"id":1953,"date":"2019-03-10T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2019-03-10T13:15:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T13:15:14","slug":"reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Life. \u00a0Reflecting on things. \u00a0Past. Things that are gone but did they happen or are they kind of feelings based on partial events. \u00a0I\u2019m sitting near my fire. It\u2019s warm. Toasty. The log burner is kicking heat out from lovely red wood embers. \u00a0Spring is almost here. \u00a0Winter is disappearing. \u00a0Memories of years gone by well up in my mind. \u00a0Facets of life from different times combine to come back to the forefront of my mind. \u00a0Do I crave some elements of my childhood and younger self still? Do feelings come from old thoughts and happenings of from now and the recollection of things? \u00a0The past is such a strange beast. \u00a0It\u2019s gone but did it ever truly exist. \u00a0When we go to sleep and wake up did any of that past really exist? Are memories real? Photos and videos, are they really real? \u00a0Past conversations. Past angers. Past. \u00a0The past. Is it really gone. \u00a0What does the future hold? \u00a0Death is the only certainty of the future. \u00a0All else is speculation. \u00a0Conjecture. Nothing is permanent. Nothing truly exists.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life. \u00a0Reflecting on things. \u00a0Past. Things that are gone but did they happen or are they kind of feelings based on partial events. \u00a0I\u2019m sitting near my fire. It\u2019s warm. Toasty. The log burner is kicking heat out from lovely red wood embers. \u00a0Spring is almost here. \u00a0Winter is disappearing. \u00a0Memories of years gone by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1953\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflections<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}