{"id":22,"date":"2007-07-30T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/beware-of-coincidences\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T09:50:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T14:50:17","slug":"beware-of-coincidences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/beware-of-coincidences\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Coincidences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t underestimate the power of coincidence.\u00a0 Several times I have contemplated taking action to accomplish a certain thing.\u00a0 On some occasions I took no action, but the intended result happened anyway.\u00a0 If I had taken action and the result occurred, I would have thought it was because of my action.\u00a0 This makes me wonder how often we preceive\u00a0our actions as the cause of a result, when really the result is coincidental to our action.\u00a0 In other words the result would have happened regardless of\u00a0our action, but we in our own minds take credit for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t underestimate the power of coincidence.\u00a0 Several times I have contemplated taking action to accomplish a certain thing.\u00a0 On some occasions I took no action, but the intended result happened anyway.\u00a0 If I had taken action and the result occurred, I would have thought it was because of my action.\u00a0 This makes me wonder how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/beware-of-coincidences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beware of Coincidences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}