{"id":1227,"date":"2009-07-08T08:42:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T08:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:23:20","slug":"meera_on_metamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/07\/meera_on_metamo.html","title":{"rendered":"Meera on Metamorphosis."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I am not like the ferns. I have spent my thirty years on changes and modifications, constantly refashioning my own shapes, mechanisms, and systems in the hope that there is, after all, a better answer. <strong>I have been shy as often as I have been bold; I have worn the crown of ambition as often as the mask of nonchalance; I have copied friends and enemies, believing their shapes an improvement over my own. <\/strong>I have been myself a dozen different ways, and still never found the right one. I am trying out a new incarnation right now, in fact\u2014fingers crossed that this time I know what I\u2019m doing\u2014if only you could see me shift. <\/em><br \/>\n-from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceessayist.com\/2009\/07\/07\/persistence-fern\/\">On the Persistence of Ferns<\/a>. [emphasis added by moi. WOW.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/girlreaction\/3684004055\/\">This girl<\/a>, she can write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not like the ferns. I have spent my thirty years on changes and modifications, constantly refashioning my own shapes, mechanisms, and systems in the hope that there is, after all, a better answer. I have been shy as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/07\/meera_on_metamo.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lit_quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3792,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/3792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}