{"id":807,"date":"2021-06-19T09:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T13:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/?p=807"},"modified":"2021-06-19T09:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T13:35:44","slug":"change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/change\/","title":{"rendered":"Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/grief-2584778_1920-1024x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-813\" srcset=\"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/grief-2584778_1920-1024x333.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/grief-2584778_1920-416x135.jpg 416w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/grief-2584778_1920-300x98.jpg 300w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/grief-2584778_1920-768x250.jpg 768w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/grief-2584778_1920-1536x499.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/grief-2584778_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Be quiet. Be still. Don\u2019t move a muscle. You think you will not cause change? Not true.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just by being, you are causing changes. Every breath you take, changes something, moves something, colors something.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if you stop breathing?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\u2019t escape this, Even in death, you continue to change&#8211;your body changes and you cause changes. Your decomposition will give off odor and you will become nutrients in the soil. The bacteria will consume you, change you and become other things. Your energy passes into other forms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Embalmed and placed in an airtight vault where you will not succumb to deterioration? You will take up space my friend&#8211;your presence will continue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 Glenda Kotchish<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be quiet. Be still. Don\u2019t move a muscle. You think you will not cause change? Not true.&nbsp; Just by being, you are causing changes. Every breath you take, changes something, moves something, colors something.&nbsp; What if you stop breathing?&nbsp; You can\u2019t escape this, Even in death, you continue to change&#8211;your body changes and you cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-story","tag-change"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}