{"id":174,"date":"2008-08-21T20:07:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T03:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=174"},"modified":"2009-04-05T13:57:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T20:57:35","slug":"see-an-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"See An Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-173\" title=\"sea-anename-film-grain\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sea-anename-film-grain.jpg\" alt=\"sea-anename-film-grain\" width=\"416\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sea-anename-film-grain.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sea-anename-film-grain-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All the great super heroes had at least one master nemesis.\u00a0 Growing up in front of the television I learned from cartoons that evil was always lurking behind every corner.\u00a0 No wonder I came to believe that we lived in an unsafe world that required hyper-vigilance.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mom&#8217;s OCD (obsessive conspiracy disorder) often provided fanciful yet conceivable theories that no doubt become fodder for my own creative license.<\/p>\n<p>Even my own <em>sane<\/em> friends each seems to have their hands (or minds) full of perceived villains.\u00a0 From the co-worker in the next cubical who is most certainly judging our work ethic to the thoughtless teenager (repetitively redundant) who stole our favorite brazier.\u00a0 No one seems to be immune from malinterpretations of an otherwise meaningless world.<\/p>\n<p>Yes in this illusory world that exists mostly in the confine of our own mental noise, it seems we each see an enemy around every corner.\u00a0 Ahh to be that little Clown Fish on the coral reef at home among Sea Anemone what leap of evolution would it take for us to transform our environs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the great super heroes had at least one master nemesis.\u00a0 Growing up in front<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chissa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}