{"id":6862,"date":"2015-10-31T16:22:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T16:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2015-10-31T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T16:23:06","slug":"eavesdropper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/?p=6862","title":{"rendered":"Eavesdropper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I overhear the bearded man say to the man of the cloth<br \/>\nwhat he asked the Disbeliever:<br \/>\nhow do you explain You?<br \/>\nAnd the two of them, conspirators now, chuckle with smug certainty<br \/>\nwhile a chill wind fans flaming leaves from a nearby woods<br \/>\ninto the autumnal park we stand in.<\/p>\n<p>Answers demand questions and science demands religion<br \/>\nand nothing ever ceases, not the chicken, not the egg,<br \/>\nnot God and not Galileo.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is not nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The wind that blows through the hardwoods forces me to believe in Time,<br \/>\nbut what is Time?<br \/>\nWhat is anything but what Is?<\/p>\n<p>What Isn\u2019t, now that\u2019s a bit harder.<br \/>\nAn answer is only another question.<\/p>\n<p>The sky never falls, Humpty is the broken egg.<\/p>\n<p>I want to ask my two Believers what answers they never searched for,<br \/>\nWhat part of This is not them.<\/p>\n<p>But of course they\u2019re not entertaining questions<br \/>\nand Dumpty will never be completely whole again,<br \/>\nnot inside this park anyway\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I overhear the bearded man say to the man of the cloth what he asked the Disbeliever: how do you explain You? And the two of them, conspirators now, chuckle with smug certainty while a chill wind fans flaming leaves from a nearby woods into the autumnal park we stand in. Answers demand questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6864,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions\/6864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}