{"id":82,"date":"2009-08-30T22:07:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T02:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/?p=82"},"modified":"2011-02-01T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:36:28","slug":"choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/2009\/08\/choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before.\u00a0 And, taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a Heaven creature or into a hellish creature &#8212; either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, \u00a0\u00a0and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is Heaven: that is, it is joy,\u00a0and peace, and knowledge, and power.\u00a0 To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness.\u00a0 Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;. C. S. Lewis, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060652926\/qid=984316127\/sr=1-1\/ref=sc_b_1\/102-8204030-5435347\">Mere Christianity<\/a> [1952]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[print_link]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before.\u00a0 And, taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/2009\/08\/choices\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,27],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-lewis","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computermeasurement.com\/dans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}