{"id":20645,"date":"2021-07-19T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20645"},"modified":"2021-07-19T12:26:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T16:26:51","slug":"random-7-19-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20645","title":{"rendered":"Random 7\/19\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>It&#8217;s summer now and the stress is low, but soon I will have to rise early in the morning and send the children back to school as if I were a capable adult and as if the world had returned to normal. Only I&#8217;m not and it hasn&#8217;t. Eek.<\/li><li>Today as I was going through the piles on my desk, I found a note that I had written down on a piece of paper. It said, &#8220;When you think about where you plan to be in twelve months from now&#8211;how imaginative is it?&#8221; I don&#8217;t know if this was a quote or if I was asking myself that question, or both. It seems like a question worth answering, but my answer is not very promising, which was perhaps the point of writing down the question to begin with. I rarely think about what my life will be like in a year, but when I do, it looks the same as now except the kids are bigger. Totally lacking imagination. That needs to change. So too does my bad habit of leaving cryptic notes on my desk.<\/li><li>It amazes me how nearly every time I encounter a new word and investigate its meaning, I will then encounter the word again almost immediately. Today&#8217;s word was &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transhumanism\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transhumanism\">transhumanism<\/a>.&#8221; I heard it first in a video clip of a speech by a religious nutjob. I encountered it later in an article in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>. What are the odds of that happening? Pretty small, I would think. I will take this as a Sign from the Universe that I am meant to know the word.<\/li><li>No, I don&#8217;t actually believe in Signs from the Universe. I just like the idea of them. So I pretend they&#8217;re real. And maybe in doing so I make them real. Or not. Who knows?<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s summer now and the stress is low, but soon I will have to rise early in the morning and send the children back to school as if I were a capable adult and as if the world had returned &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20645\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20645"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20653,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20645\/revisions\/20653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}