{"id":1415,"date":"2010-11-06T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2010-11-16T12:52:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T20:52:38","slug":"optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/2010\/11\/06\/optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Ricardo Segovia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1416\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/files\/2010\/11\/pagina_5946.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/files\/2010\/11\/pagina_5946.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/files\/2010\/11\/pagina_5946-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seeing is receiving.<br \/>\nSo take your gentle eyes and open them up to our upside-down world.<br \/>\nThe pain pierces; your eyes shut then open again, tugged by Love.<br \/>\nHow easy it would be to look away, and walk away,<br \/>\nbut stubbornness and passion are long lost brothers<br \/>\nwho reunite in the breath, voice, and angry trembling hands<br \/>\nof those who dare to see.<br \/>\nMaintain your puzzled gaze,<br \/>\nbecause eventually one sees<br \/>\nthat the insanity machine has been tampered with<br \/>\nby millions of weathered fingers\u2026<br \/>\nand its pieces will soon be scattered and rusting<br \/>\nunder tears of joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ricardo Segovia Seeing is receiving. So take your gentle eyes and open them up to our upside-down world. The pain pierces; your eyes shut then open again, tugged by Love. How easy it would be to look away, and walk away, but stubbornness and passion are long lost brothers who reunite in the breath, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":720,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}