{"id":1062,"date":"2018-04-13T13:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T22:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2018-04-15T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T17:46:08","slug":"the-epiphany-peddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/the-epiphany-peddler\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epiphany Peddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s me, the epiphany peddler. I haven&#8217;t no barrow filled high with turnips or taters. I offer only the finest of intangibles I do, like the Emperors new clothes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/cf\/FOURNEL%281887%29_p025_Fig.10.jpg\/600px-FOURNEL%281887%29_p025_Fig.10.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"350\" \/>Its like magic or fairy dust. I sprinkle a little here and dab a little there and Bob&#8217;s your uncle, there you are &#8211;\u00a0 suddenly you have a bright shiny new epiphany. And then there be a hootin and a hollerin and the whole world suddenly makes a good bit o sense<\/p>\n<p>Epiphanies are scare on the ground, of course. You can&#8217;t mine them or chop them down, though some argue hen they had a pint too many that procuring an epiphany is mostly like fly fishing, or piping for rats. Have to tease them epiphanies out, you do, and there&#8217;s just no telling if, or when, or never. And of course most having never had one, they don&#8217;t believe in them. Can&#8217;t blame them much. Epiphanies will never be like turnips or taters, don&#8217;t you know.<\/p>\n<p>Like with doctors, sniffing them out for others says nothing about making do for yourself, and at present I am sitting in an old Syracusan tub, and the water has gone very cold&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s me, the epiphany peddler. I haven&#8217;t no barrow filled high with turnips or taters. I offer only the finest of intangibles I do, like the Emperors new clothes. Its like magic or fairy dust. I sprinkle a little here and dab a little there and Bob&#8217;s your uncle, there you are &#8211;\u00a0 suddenly you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-marc-grober","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}