{"id":2331,"date":"2012-07-17T10:02:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T10:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2012-08-24T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T20:13:10","slug":"fishing-for-a-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/fishing-for-a-feed","title":{"rendered":"Fishing for a Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Going to the light could cost you dearly.<\/p><\/div>\n

When they get hungry, some creatures run after their food, others browse for their lunch, while others still ambush their prey. A select few angle for their supper.<\/p>\n

The concept of luring in exists today in humans. Oh, yeah, I’ll bet you’ve enjoyed a time when someone lured you into a conversation, a behavior, or a place that when you came to the realization of the “jig”, you were fish food – you know, down the proverbial hatch.<\/p>\n

Just as in the wild, we humans use all sorts of methods to feed our insatiable emotional appetites. One method is the LURE.<\/p>\n

Oh, yes, just like angler fish, we sometimes will dangle out there a bit of lighted “bait” hoping to snag the unwary. And when we feel they are close enough, WHAM! We let them have it – or, rather, suck them in entirely. Digestion usually follows.<\/p>\n

Let’s face it, just like the angler fish we live in a world of darkness. We think the lights are on, but mostly, we’re busy fooling ourselves about it because we fear the dark – for good reason, mind you. The dark, figuratively representing the unknown, is all around us. A few individuals exhibit some light (scientists, poets, psychics, luminaries of all sorts), yet some of those “lights” are lures.<\/p>\n

How many and which ones are lures? How should I know – I’m a bottom feeder!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When they get hungry, some creatures run after their food, others browse for their lunch, while others still ambush their prey. A select few angle for their supper. The concept of luring in exists today in humans. Oh, yeah, I’ll … Continue reading →<\/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],"tags":[49,51,50],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-on-feeding","tag-appetites","tag-prey","tag-realization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}