{"id":16618,"date":"2015-03-27T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T08:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=16618"},"modified":"2015-03-27T16:16:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T08:16:24","slug":"second-chances-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2015\/03\/second-chances-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Chances Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16619\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/110-219x300.jpg?resize=219%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/110.jpg?resize=219%2C300&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/110.jpg?resize=70%2C96&amp;ssl=1 70w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/110.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>Thoughts after reading &#8216;Seconds&#8217; by Bryan Lee O&#8217;malley:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is a second chance,<br \/>\nbut never in the past,<br \/>\nand always in the present<\/p>\n<p>The past can&#8217;t be changed<br \/>\nbut the future can,<br \/>\nby doing better now<\/p>\n<p>Even if you can return to the past<br \/>\nto undo a mistake,<br \/>\nit doesn&#8217;t make everything else perfect.<\/p>\n<p>There would be new mistakes<br \/>\ndue to persistent faults unchanged,<br \/>\nwhile change is always in the now.<\/p>\n<p>A perfect life then,<br \/>\ndoes not lie in rewriting the past,<br \/>\nbut relearning from it now, for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts after reading &#8216;Seconds&#8217; by Bryan Lee O&#8217;malley: There is a second chance, but never in the past, and always&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-16618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-repentance","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}