{"id":1446,"date":"2012-03-19T03:41:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T03:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2012-03-19T21:44:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T21:44:27","slug":"who-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/who-else","title":{"rendered":"Who Else is Feeding on Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1464\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/who-else\/172801xcitefun-pollen-05\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1464\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1464\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1464\" title=\"172801,xcitefun-pollen-05\" src=\"http:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/172801xcitefun-pollen-05-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"Life is a mirror, a fractal, in more ways than we know.\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/172801xcitefun-pollen-05-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/172801xcitefun-pollen-05-200x122.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/172801xcitefun-pollen-05-491x300.jpg 491w, https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/172801xcitefun-pollen-05.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life is a mirror, a fractal, in more ways than we know.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With such technological advancements in cell research, it&#8217;s no wonder we are able to find out, in detail, what is sharing our life&#8217;s journey. But what if there are other creatures, also tagging along, that are even more or less friendly to our well being? What if\u00a0 the praise for our &#8220;good work!&#8221; is going to the wrong source? If the influence we are getting, through &#8220;inspiration,&#8221; is not coming from our own mind, where is it coming from? Conversely, if the &#8220;bad idea&#8221; brings trouble we didn&#8217;t even know we caused, might this not be frustrating?\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t the conditions we find ourselves facing, lead us to replay our behaviors and thoughts over and over to find a reasonable explanation for what we do?\u00a0 Then, after justifying what we have done, isn&#8217;t it just easier or more convenient to blame or deny accountability? The &#8220;devil made me do it&#8221; may not be so unbelievable. The devil may be another name for what our scientists would call the unknown or non-existent . Our unearthly shadows, though illusive, seem to be making their presence known through our thoughts and behaviors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With such technological advancements in cell research, it&#8217;s no wonder we are able to find out, in detail, what is sharing our life&#8217;s journey. But what if there are other creatures, also tagging along, that are even more or less &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/who-else\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-on-feeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}