{"id":2083,"date":"2018-06-02T20:47:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T20:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2018-06-27T17:38:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T17:38:39","slug":"commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMITMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make it is to wonder why you should;<br \/>\nEmotion pushes hard, the mind&#8217;s intent<br \/>\nTo pause &#8217;til reason convinces, which should<br \/>\nMean mind and heart have closed the argument.<\/p>\n<p>How difficult it was for you to see<br \/>\nWhether there was a sacrifice or not;<br \/>\nWhereas it seemed impossible for me<br \/>\nTo conquer by surrendering the plot.<\/p>\n<p>Dynamic inertia like created<br \/>\nPromises that would banish failure&#8217;s dread;<br \/>\nYet were such promises over-stated<br \/>\nOr finessed by underlying risk instead?<\/p>\n<p>So what needed to be understood<br \/>\nTo shift the balance evenly<br \/>\nFor the doing in uncritical mood<br \/>\nShould not be tied to unfair responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>The best state; independence declared.<br \/>\nWho wants to interfere with this? And why?<br \/>\nWas the reluctance equitably shared?<br \/>\nAnd if not, why should anyone apply?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, how I weighed it up so long and deep<br \/>\nUntil spent reasoning had no more charms<br \/>\nThen I closed my eyes and took a leap<br \/>\nInto commitment&#8217;s ever waiting arms<\/p>\n<p>.April 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make it is to wonder why you should; Emotion pushes hard, the mind&#8217;s intent To pause &#8217;til reason convinces, which should Mean mind and heart have closed the argument. How difficult it was for you to see Whether there &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/commitment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}