{"id":45527,"date":"2014-04-11T09:49:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T13:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=45527"},"modified":"2014-04-11T09:50:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T13:50:18","slug":"losing-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/11\/losing-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"losing your mind&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">In the Field of Dreams, James Earl Jones <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7SB16il97yw\">reminds<\/a> of those recurrent seasons that help us mark the passage of time. For him it was baseball season. For many, it&#8217;s Christmas, or hunting season, or even Spring. Something that just shows up year after year &#8211; the rhythm of life. Then again, for some of us, it&#8217;s something else &#8211; something forgotten that makes its presence known whether we want to acknowledge it or not:    <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/pollenapr.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/pollen2012.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"202\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/pollen-2013.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">And so here it is once again. And rather than singing oldies like &quot;<em>Those April Showers, May come your way&#8230;<\/em>&quot; we hear the dark refrains of Eliot,<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>April is the cruellest month, breeding<br \/>    Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing<br \/>    Memory and desire, stirring<br \/>    Dull roots with spring rain&#8230;<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"199\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/pollen-2014.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">and count the days. As I say every year, &quot;<em>Even when there&rsquo;s no cure for an illness, it&rsquo;s helpful for the afflicted  to know what&rsquo;s wrong &ndash; why they&rsquo;re having trouble thinking.<\/em>&quot; It&#8217;s another kind of &quot;<em>losing your mind&#8230;<\/em>&quot;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Field of Dreams, James Earl Jones reminds of those recurrent seasons that help us mark the passage of time. For him it was baseball season. For many, it&#8217;s Christmas, or hunting season, or even Spring. Something that just shows up year after year &#8211; the rhythm of life. Then again, for some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45531,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45527\/revisions\/45531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}