{"id":149,"date":"2012-05-23T12:07:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/?p=149"},"modified":"2012-05-23T12:07:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:07:39","slug":"drifting-is-it-another-name-for-one-persons-purposefulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/archives\/149","title":{"rendered":"Drifting &#8211; is it another name for one person&#8217;s purposefulness ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days flow into nights, weeks into months, and time inexorably keeps up its measured march forward. Children grow up, parents become grandparents, and fresh youth opens eyes in wonder to a brand new world.<\/p>\n<p>Age and experience complain bitterly even as youth gurgles in evident joy. Experience teaches me that they will learn &#8211; give them time: age tells me that time is one thing they will always be short of.<\/p>\n<p>The parent in me wants to prevent anything bad from happening to them &#8211; the adult in me tells me that that is the only way they will learn.<\/p>\n<p>And by the time I resolve this apparent conflict in myself, my time , invariably, is up \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So I now pray for God to give all humanity the wisdom to be patient, and the patience to acquire the right wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days flow into nights, weeks into months, and time inexorably keeps up its measured march forward. Children grow up, parents become grandparents, and fresh youth opens eyes in wonder to a brand new world. Age and experience complain bitterly even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/archives\/149\">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":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}