{"id":15441,"date":"2014-11-23T17:46:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T22:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15441"},"modified":"2014-11-23T17:46:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T22:46:48","slug":"sheldon-part-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15441","title":{"rendered":"Sheldon, part 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sort of ready, but&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte looked apologetic. &#8220;While we&#8217;ve been standing here, all these questions have been coming up in my mind &#8212; I&#8217;m not sure from where.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like what, for instance?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, like what does it mean that we came back to a different reality?  I mean, how do I still know that there was any other reality before this one?  And does the book talk about that different reality at all?  Or does it now talk about <i>both<\/i> realities?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wait &#8212; all those questions came into your head just this moment, while we&#8217;ve been standing here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah.  Weird, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe, but they are very good questions.  What&#8217;s different about you that allows you to pass between realities and still remember the one you were in before?  Is it because you&#8217;re the only one of us who&#8217;s not a ghost?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, that can&#8217;t be it,&#8221; Charlotte said.  &#8220;Remember, in the other reality my parents weren&#8217;t ghosts either.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So you&#8217;ve said. I don&#8217;t actually remember them not being ghosts, but I remember that we&#8217;ve been changing realities, so I&#8217;m going to trust you on this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh wait &#8212; that&#8217;s a clue!&#8221; Charlotte said. &#8220;You remember some of the other realities, but not all of them.  So whatever gives me the ability to think about more than one reality, it&#8217;s also given you some of that same ability.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sheldon shook his head.  &#8220;It&#8217;s a puzzle, isn&#8217;t it?  I still can&#8217;t believe all those questions came into your head between one moment and the next.  Sometimes I think there&#8217;s more than one person in that mind of yours.  I wonder just which one, exactly, I am talking to now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte just smiled. &#8220;No comment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sort of ready, but&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;But what?&#8221; Charlotte looked apologetic. &#8220;While we&#8217;ve been standing here, all these questions have been coming up in my mind &#8212; I&#8217;m not sure from where.&#8221; &#8220;Like what, for instance?&#8221; &#8220;Well, like what does it mean that we came back to a different reality? I mean, how do I still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sheldon, part 23&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15442,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15441\/revisions\/15442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}