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Be Normal.<\/p>\n

At least to your own values.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Be Normal. At least to your own values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,242,77,250],"tags":[],"metadata":[284],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-evernote-entries","category-perspective","category-tid-bits","metadata-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2693,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/11\/20\/wednesday-november-20-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":2671,"position":0},"title":"Wednesday November 20, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"November 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Faced with the empty page and a non-existent word count, the text unfolds like a strange and alien embryo that finds itself on unmarked paths; an existential development built in a primitive semantics.","rel":"","context":"In "All Posts"","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2632,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/10\/26\/saturday-october-26-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":2671,"position":1},"title":"Saturday October 26, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"October 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The first question is, \"What is the mind\". 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