{"id":22298,"date":"2012-12-31T21:11:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T21:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/12\/31\/neil-must-feel-this-with-me-all-the-timei-wasnt\/"},"modified":"2012-12-31T21:11:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T21:11:45","slug":"neil-must-feel-this-with-me-all-the-timei-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/12\/31\/neil-must-feel-this-with-me-all-the-timei-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>neil must feel this with me all the time\u2026i wasn\u2019t a sci-fi kid, i wasn\u2019t into \u201cdr. who\u201d, or movies, or reading fantasy books, or any of the things that delight him when they pass his nostalgia radar. he has to rely on other people for all that joy-sharing. but i can try. i do try. i at least try to see where those things touched him\u2026and why\u2026and that\u2019s all we can do for each other, sometimes. respect the things that delight the other, and not feel like we have to achieve any deeper understanding. the fact that those we love are feeling joy should just be enough in itself, otherwise we\u2019re loving selfishly\u2026we have to be a part of story. you don\u2019t always have to be a part of the story. you can watch.<\/p>\n<p>we do what we can: abide on the side and try to sense the significance.<\/p>\n<p>and that leaves us\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>i think it leaves us with some sort of deep lesson about loving things that we don\u2019t necessarily understand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Amanda Palmer (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/kaylotta.tumblr.com\/\">kaylotta<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>neil must feel this with me all the time\u2026i wasn\u2019t a sci-fi kid, i wasn\u2019t into \u201cdr. who\u201d, or movies, or reading fantasy books, or any of the things that delight him when they pass his nostalgia radar. he has to rely on other people for all that joy-sharing. but i can try. i do &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/12\/31\/neil-must-feel-this-with-me-all-the-timei-wasnt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[909,83,1077,7842],"class_list":["post-22298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-joy","tag-love","tag-meandyou","tag-sharing","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}