{"id":337,"date":"2007-03-06T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=337"},"modified":"2015-07-10T21:06:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T02:06:33","slug":"quote_of_the_da-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/03\/quote_of_the_da-5.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Alicia&#8217;s archives:  <a href=\"http:\/\/rosylittlethings.typepad.com\/posie_gets_cozy\/2006\/03\/an_anniversary.html\"><strong>I absolutely do not believe that everything happens for a reason; I never did, and I still don&#8217;t. <\/strong>I believe that we fashion sense out of the things that happen, and create a kind of meaning in the result. And at the end of the day, you just gotta plow on through! <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Agreed.  If you believe &#8220;everything happens for a reason&#8221; I think you&#8217;re reaching for straws.  And if your version is &#8220;it&#8217;s God&#8217;s will&#8221; well, then I just have to laugh.  There&#8217;s this little philosophical concept called &#8220;free will&#8221; you may want to acquaint yourself with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Alicia&#8217;s archives: I absolutely do not believe that everything happens for a reason; I never did, and I still don&#8217;t. I believe that we fashion sense out of the things that happen, and create a kind of meaning in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/03\/quote_of_the_da-5.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-_of_the_xxx"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","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=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}