{"id":7167,"date":"2013-02-13T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T04:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2013-03-23T00:38:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T19:08:45","slug":"fence-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2013\/02\/13\/fence-sitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fence sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7168 lazyload\" title=\"shire\" data-src=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"221\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shire.jpg 572w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shire-300x115.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 572px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 572\/221;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s easy to guess the book from where this has been taken. I started reading it only recently. (yes, yes, give me a painful death) &#8220;<em>Others dwelt here before&#8230; and others will dwell here again&#8230;<\/em>&#8221; is pretty timeless, but I was more fascinated by the line after that &#8220;<em>The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To an almost &#8216;asocial&#8217; like me, fencing myself in has been an escape route that I use more often than not. It&#8217;s also why this is one of my favourite songs<\/p>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/njZtUD6oal0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But of late, I am not sure how much fencing oneself in works, especially since the world will find a way to intrude. Probably a sign that I&#8217;m getting old, or at least older! In fact, attempts at it become a struggle, one that serves no purpose. That&#8217;s probably why most people don&#8217;t treat it as black &amp; white, and get by with occasional forays into their fenced-in world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">until next time, keep fencing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to guess the book from where this has been taken. I started reading it only recently. (yes, yes, give me a painful death) &#8220;Others dwelt here before&#8230; and others will dwell here again&#8230;&#8221; is pretty timeless, but I was more fascinated by the line after that &#8220;The wide world is all about you: <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2013\/02\/13\/fence-sitting\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479,412],"tags":[1541,2459,2458],"class_list":["post-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughtstream","category-life","tag-alone","tag-fence","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7861,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions\/7861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}