{"id":42817,"date":"2023-01-08T15:56:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T04:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42817"},"modified":"2024-06-24T05:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T19:23:06","slug":"when-you-realize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42817","title":{"rendered":"When You Realize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-50398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/When_You_Realize-1-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"When You Realize\" width=\"653\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/When_You_Realize-1-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/When_You_Realize-1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What we commonly call reality is a composite or agreed upon reality. At the most reductionist level, you and I are only doing what we are doing because we are not choosing to do something else. For instance if you and I decided this society was so far gone it was doomed and we needed to gather people and create a new one, we would be doing that and creating a new paradigm, a la Buckminster Fuller. (Don&#8217;t try to alter the current paradigm, create a new one.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we commonly call reality is a composite or agreed upon reality. At the most reductionist level, you and I are only doing what we are doing because we are not choosing to do something else. For instance if you and I decided this society was so far gone it was doomed and we needed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42817\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When You Realize&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50400,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42817\/revisions\/50400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}