{"id":125,"date":"2007-11-01T11:07:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T16:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2008-03-16T14:48:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T19:48:32","slug":"accents-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Fear vs Bravery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"photo_v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2007\/11\/wrapped_up_31Oct2007_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2007\/11\/wrapped_up_31Oct2007_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe baby and I snuggled together<br \/>\non a chilly October morning.<br \/>\n31 October 2007<\/p>\n<p>Since English seems to be the new&#8230; well&#8230; English, I&#8217;ve been experimenting with accents.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is a sample (you have to click the play button twice):<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/audio\/english2.mp3]\n<p>I keep writing snippets of non-existent novels and playing with voices.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here&#8217;s the bizarre thing: I realize that I will be dead in an extremely short time in the grand scheme of things.\u00c2\u00a0 The memory of my existence and all I did will become nothing within the enormity of time and space.\u00c2\u00a0 And yet, even with this knowledge, I am still hesitant to create anything.\u00c2\u00a0 I am still filled with fear that I will seem ridiculous&#8230; you know, as one deserving ridicule.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite sayings comes from Virgil, the wise chicken in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mighty_Max_%28TV_series%29\">Mighty\u00c2\u00a0Max<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Max learns that Norman, his\u00c2\u00a0protector, is afraid of spiders, and is completely surprised because Norman has never shown fear of anything.\u00c2\u00a0 Max says to Virgil, &#8220;I always thought Norman was so brave.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0And Virgil replies,\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Bravery is not lack of fear; it is acting in spite of fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Creativity is not lack of fear; it is creating in spite of fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The baby and I snuggled together on a chilly October morning. 31 October 2007 Since English seems to be the new&#8230; well&#8230; English, I&#8217;ve been experimenting with accents.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is a sample (you have to click the play button twice): [audio:http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/audio\/english2.mp3] I keep writing snippets of non-existent novels and playing with voices. Now, here&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}