{"id":1055,"date":"2024-10-30T04:47:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2024-10-30T04:47:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:47:08","slug":"and-so-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"and so, choose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Is it a limitation<br>of the English language or of our own understanding that the active part of 'do as thou wilt' obscures the choice <em>not<\/em> to do?<br><br>Absence<br>is bounded space that can be filled as much by 'I may yet' or 'I will' as by 'I do' and takes no umbrage at 'I do not' or 'I will not' or 'I will never.'<br><br>The power of negation<br>can reverse reversal and so restore to a natural shape that which has been perverted, corrupted, or misaligned by devious agents.<br><br>'No' is an elixir of liberation.<br>'No' is a root in rotten soil.<br>'No' is a grain of sand in the track of the machine.<br><br>'Do as thou wilt'<br>and so, choose.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>October 30, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it a limitationof the English language or of our&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=1055\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">and so, choose<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[47,2],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-47","tag-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}