{"id":1578,"date":"2007-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.draumrpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2007-04-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T04:00:00","slug":"f-is-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/2007\/04\/07\/f-is-for\/","title":{"rendered":"F is for&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, F is *not* for Forgotton.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit I struggled a bit coming up with a good word for F.  Sure, I could have taken the EASY road, and used one of the most versatile and flexible cursewords, but my mom might actually be reading and she&#39;d demand to wash my mouth out with soap.  <\/p>\n<p>And I so love the taste of soap.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I needed to stretch&#8230;.let my mind wander, to dark recesses and see what might be lurking in them.  Scary stuff, yes, but something you&#39;ve got to embrace the scary to really reach destinations that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Or to go&#8230;.Further.<\/p>\n<p>F is for Further.<\/p>\n<p>1 : FARTHER 1 &lt;my ponies are tired, and I have further to go &#8212; Thomas Hardy&gt;<br \/>2 : in addition : MOREOVER<br \/>3 : to a greater degree or extent &lt;further annoyed by a second intrusion&gt;<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m taking the first road here.  Go Further.  Get farther.  I&#39;m not really sure why English needed two words for the same concept, except that it&#39;s a big, important concept.  Don&#39;t rest on your laurels.  Keep going.  Past the point where you thought you couldn&#39;t go past.  Go Further.<\/p>\n<p>I like sayings a lot &#8211; not really the goofy stuff like &quot;Don&#39;t worry, be happy&quot; but the more bitter, caustic ones.  Rida mentioned &quot;Perception is Reality&quot; a few blogs back.  I do love that one.  I also like the quote that I&#39;ve mostly seen attributed to Winston Churchill:  &quot;If you are going through Hell, keep going.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Y&#39;know.  Further.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, F is *not* for Forgotton.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit I struggled a bit coming up with a good word for F.  Sure, I could have taken the EASY road, and used one of the most versatile and flexible cursewords, but my mom might actually be reading and she&#39;d demand to wash my mouth out with soap.  <\/p>\n<p>And I so love the taste of soap.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I needed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","has-single-img"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}