{"id":461,"date":"2018-09-02T22:37:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T02:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/?p=461"},"modified":"2018-08-31T00:11:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T04:11:22","slug":"to-ripen-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/2018\/09\/02\/to-ripen-time\/","title":{"rendered":"TO RIPEN TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-abst-03s-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-abst-03s-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-abst-03s-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-abst-03s-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-abst-03s-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-abst-03s-1120x1120.jpg 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nTrying to force change<br \/>\nby pushing and fighting<br \/>\nprovokes opposite reaction.<br \/>\nOft, the backsplash swamps the gain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Change comes<br \/>\nwhen Time is Ripe.<br \/>\nThe way of change<br \/>\nis the ripening of time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Change is always happening<br \/>\n(for change is the essence of time)<br \/>\nyet most amounts to lil or nil.<br \/>\nWhen Time is Ripe, tho,<br \/>\nlittle change goes big.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Imagination projects possibilities.<br \/>\nDecisions forge a path.<br \/>\nThere is no destination,<br \/>\nbut always a chosen direction,<br \/>\na Vector of Value.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How do you ripen a fruit?<br \/>\nYou feed the tree that bears it.<br \/>\nSun, water, air and earth,<br \/>\ncaring and trusting,<br \/>\nare all it takes.<br \/>\nOne day that sweet juice<br \/>\nruns down your face!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Forced change may appear to work,<br \/>\nonly to blow up later on.<br \/>\nNurtured change may appear weak,<br \/>\nuntil it comes into its fullness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The public show is a fake fight,<br \/>\npuppets puffing and posturing,<br \/>\npulled punches with foleyed oofs!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The realer action is under ground,<br \/>\nunseen and unsung,<br \/>\nindefatigable.<br \/>\nThe weeds will shatter the streets!<br \/>\nWait and see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>UNDER<\/em><br \/>\n<em>GROUND<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to force change by pushing and fighting provokes opposite reaction. Oft, the backsplash swamps the gain. Change comes when Time is Ripe. The way of change is the ripening of time. Change is always happening (for change is the essence of time) yet most amounts to lil or nil. When Time is Ripe, tho,&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"simppeli-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/2018\/09\/02\/to-ripen-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TO RIPEN TIME<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9EaEv-7r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}