{"id":1309,"date":"2014-11-22T16:19:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T16:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2014-11-22T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T16:27:17","slug":"i-may-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"I may choose   ~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vailkap.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vailkap-168x300.png\" alt=\"vailkap\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vailkap-168x300.png 168w, https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vailkap-574x1024.png 574w, https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vailkap.png 1466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 85vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I may choose \u00a0 ~<br \/>\nto be<br \/>\nand remain<br \/>\nthis insignificant<br \/>\nwhomever<br \/>\n~ \u00a0 \u00a0being<br \/>\nlittle more than<br \/>\nsome offshoot<br \/>\nof futility<br \/>\nwithering among<br \/>\nthe quagmire<br \/>\nbeholden<br \/>\nto the bland<br \/>\nand unnoticeable<br \/>\nland of forgotten<br \/>\nnourished<br \/>\nby ambiguity<br \/>\nand despoiled<br \/>\nwith victim-hood<br \/>\nor<br \/>\nI may choose \u00a0 ~<br \/>\nto be<br \/>\nand become<br \/>\nthis significant<br \/>\nsomebody<br \/>\n~ \u00a0 \u00a0being<br \/>\nfully able<br \/>\nas the tree<br \/>\nsturdy<br \/>\nand forthright<br \/>\nalong that winding<br \/>\nroad of life<br \/>\nfilled with<br \/>\nmany shadows<br \/>\nthose struggles<br \/>\nseeming so<br \/>\nmountainous<br \/>\nat times<br \/>\nand yet<br \/>\nI may choose \u00a0 ~<br \/>\nrefuse to give in<br \/>\nstand tall<br \/>\nbeing that example<br \/>\nfor others to go on<\/p>\n<p>Words &amp; Image by \u00a0 \u00a0~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may choose \u00a0 ~ to be and remain this insignificant whomever ~ \u00a0 \u00a0being little more than some offshoot of futility withering among the quagmire beholden to the bland and unnoticeable land of forgotten nourished by ambiguity and despoiled with victim-hood or I may choose \u00a0 ~ to be and become this significant somebody &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I may choose   ~&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kap","category-muse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}