{"id":24478,"date":"2012-10-10T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/10\/10\/i-do-wish-this-quote-was-a-little-shorter-because\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T11:31:28","slug":"i-do-wish-this-quote-was-a-little-shorter-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/10\/10\/i-do-wish-this-quote-was-a-little-shorter-because\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24478 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/10\/10\/i-do-wish-this-quote-was-a-little-shorter-because\/attachment\/24479\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_mb75ukywkk1ri46rdo1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_mb75ukywkk1ri46rdo1_500-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_mb75ukywkk1ri46rdo1_500-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I do wish this quote was a little shorter, because it is fairly tattoo-worthy.<\/p>\n<p>there have been many stages in my journey where I falter, because what I thought I knew has been deconstructed and replaced with an overwhelmingly new set of directions, philosophies, and truths (with a lowercase T, of course). I wish I&rsquo;d had this quote for all of them, because it combines both what I have held on to from my past and what I have learned in the big wide world into something simple that rings true and shines through even the scariest unknown.<\/p>\n<p>I may not know just how to let people into my world; I may grapple with the empty moments; I may question the &ldquo;good&rdquo; and &ldquo;right&rdquo; of my being and my doing. but I sure can learn, and I sure can empathize, and somehow it all seems to come back to that: we&rsquo;re here to learn and love. sure, sometimes we&rsquo;ll live beyond ourselves, through an invention or a child or an enduring philosophy, but&hellip; in the end, we all leave with our knowledge and lessons, and we all leave behind the people whose lives we&rsquo;ve touched.<\/p>\n<p>here&rsquo;s to tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do wish this quote was a little shorter, because it is fairly tattoo-worthy. there have been many stages in my journey where I falter, because what I thought I knew has been deconstructed and replaced with an overwhelmingly new set of directions, philosophies, and truths (with a lowercase T, of course). I wish I&rsquo;d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/10\/10\/i-do-wish-this-quote-was-a-little-shorter-because\/\" 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":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8120,8121],"class_list":["post-24478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-neil-degrasse-tyson","tag-philosophy","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478","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=24478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24480,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478\/revisions\/24480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}