{"id":354,"date":"2009-12-02T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2013-09-13T20:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T03:31:30","slug":"i-be-done-seen-about-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"I Be Done Seen About Everything&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember watching the animated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0033563\/\">Dumbo<\/a> movie as a kid and being confused by the singing crows who couldn&#8217;t bring themselves to believe Dumbo could fly. They&#8217;d seen a peanut stand, heard a rubber band, and so on, but a flying elephant was beyond their comprehension. I was probably six or so and clearly I had seen an elephant fly throughout the movie. What was so hard to believe? Now, as an adult, I know numerous reasons an elephant can never fly. I, too, would be skeptical if someone told me an elephant could fly.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, I can&#8217;t help but think that something more important was lost when I stopped believing an elephant can fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember watching the animated Dumbo movie as a kid and being confused by the singing crows who couldn&#8217;t bring themselves to believe Dumbo could fly. They&#8217;d seen a peanut stand, heard a rubber band, and so on, but a flying elephant was beyond their comprehension. I was probably six or so and clearly I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[263],"tags":[12,161,162],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}