{"id":21689,"date":"2019-11-01T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21689"},"modified":"2019-11-01T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T02:00:13","slug":"a-new-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21689","title":{"rendered":"A new month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new month is an entire world to explore, a vista of possibilities. It spreads out before you invitingly, asking you in, tempting you to take a stroll, to look around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the first day of the month, and somehow that provokes my sense of adventure. What will happen that I could not have predicted? What changes will there be in my life and in the lives of those I love?<\/p>\n<p>These are exciting questions because they touch on some very real existential issues. A month can be viewed as a contained experiment in the power of free will.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of a month, you can set out to create a change in your life, and then see actual results of that change. And unlike a year, a month is a short enough span of time to assess and &#8212; if needed &#8212; to rechart your course.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to exploring the existential possibilities, to playing in my shiny new 30 day research laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new month is an entire world to explore, a vista of possibilities. It spreads out before you invitingly, asking you in, tempting you to take a stroll, to look around the corner. Today is the first day of the month, and somehow that provokes my sense of adventure. What will happen that I could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A new month&#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\/21689"}],"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=21689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21690,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21689\/revisions\/21690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}