{"id":255834,"date":"2023-07-03T19:59:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T23:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2023\/07\/03\/the-why\/"},"modified":"2023-07-03T19:59:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T23:59:16","slug":"the-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/07\/03\/the-why\/","title":{"rendered":"The Why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to be in rooms full of people I love.<br>The world goes white then green again<br>like the mind telling the body it is not alone.<br>The body saying something I can almost hear<br>above the sound of a dog barking<br>because he feels himself tied and tremendously alone.<br>Who would you believe?<br>I walk the great streets of New York City<br>where many great people have lived<br>and think how great it is to live and die on earth<br>even if it means having known nothing<br>of the why. Nothing of the why.<br><br>Alex Dimitrov (2013)<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be in rooms full of people I love.The world goes white then green againlike the mind telling the body it is not alone.The body saying something I can almost hearabove the sound of a dog barkingbecause he feels himself tied and tremendously alone.Who would you believe?I walk the great streets of New &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/07\/03\/the-why\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Why&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}