{"id":9232,"date":"2011-05-27T11:41:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T03:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=9232"},"modified":"2011-05-27T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T03:41:49","slug":"bubble-bubble-toil-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/05\/bubble-bubble-toil-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubble, Bubble, Toil &#038; Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9233\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/126.jpg?resize=112%2C157\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/126.jpg?w=160&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/126.jpg?resize=69%2C96&amp;ssl=1 69w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Saw a modern gangland movie version&#8217;s retelling of Macbeth, which I studied in school years ago&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A case of listening to witches&#8217; hearsay (or heresy?),<br \/>\nhearing only what he wanted to hear, his heart&#8217;s desires spelled out,<br \/>\ntrapping and tripping himself with over-confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Did the witches tell his inevitable future,<br \/>\nor did he make his own doom inevitable by fulfilling their prophecy<br \/>\nwith his greed for a preferred future?<\/p>\n<p>Did the witches trick him,<br \/>\nknowing what he wanted to hear?<br \/>\nPerhaps, but they did warn too, though he did not heed.<\/p>\n<p>Was it all predestined?<br \/>\nIf he believed so, he needn&#8217;t have to put himself through the toil and trouble.<br \/>\nIf it wasn&#8217;t so, it was the fault of his ambition, conditioned by the treachery of the witches.<\/p>\n<p>So is there predestination after all?<br \/>\nSafer always to think there isn&#8217;t.<br \/>\nSafer to toil even if it&#8217;s troublesome, to overcome our demons.<\/p>\n<p>How could he trust any witch,<br \/>\nmuch more to say a trio of them?<br \/>\nBecause he listened with the witchery of his already darkened heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a modern gangland movie version&#8217;s retelling of Macbeth, which I studied in school years ago&#8230; A case of listening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[95,137,248,80,442],"class_list":["post-9232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-confidence","tag-demon","tag-fate","tag-greed","tag-trust","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232","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=9232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}