{"id":36,"date":"2007-02-16T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T16:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erniethayer.com\/2007\/02\/16\/36\/more-on-the-bumble-bee\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T08:05:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T16:05:36","slug":"more-on-the-bumble-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/36\/more-on-the-bumble-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the Bumble Bee&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the wonders of my discovery of a way of life that&#8217;s so <em>easy<\/em> is that getting there is easy too.  What&#8217;s really <em>hard<\/em> is the insistence by my old way of living that it can help!  It can&#8217;t.  It just bashes my head against the window.  I see the light outside, but I can&#8217;t do anything but &#8220;try&#8221; to get there.  It&#8217;ll never work.  The bee is the problem, not the solution. So the bumble bee imagery breaks down now:  actually the problem is the bee itself.  In a human life, when the &#8216;me-bee&#8217; quits trying because it realizes it can&#8217;t get outside, the open window is right there!  It is the whole human being who escapes; the unfortunate carcass of the &#8216;me-bee&#8217; is left behind (to do the taxes, maintain the car and, if it&#8217;s lucky, make music!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the wonders of my discovery of a way of life that&#8217;s so easy is that getting there is easy too. What&#8217;s really hard is the insistence by my old way of living that it can help! It can&#8217;t. It just bashes my head against the window. I see the light outside, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erniethayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}