{"id":304,"date":"2013-08-31T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T10:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=304"},"modified":"2019-01-31T21:01:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:01:12","slug":"pick-rope-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Pick Up The Rope of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It came to me in a dream some 10+ years ago. I entered a completely white room with no windows or doors. \u00a0As I entered, the opening behind me closed, leaving me in a totally white void space. \u00a0Suddenly I noticed a rope hanging from the side. It appeared white also, and about the size used in junior high to climb to the ceiling in gym class, except it was attached by a metal plate to the white wall in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>I picked it up and started pulling on it, as tho by pulling I could escape this white room. After a short while, it occurred to me that I was accomplishing nothing and still in the white room. So I dropped the rope! \u00a0As soon as I did, the white room disappeared and I was free. \u00a0Ever since that dream,\u00a0I have tried to remind myself to &#8220;just drop the rope&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-305\" src=\"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Post-65-Pick-Up-The-Rope-1-e1430837235500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-307\" src=\"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Post-65-Pick-Up-The-Rope-2-e1430837220371.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/>\\r\\n\\r\\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It came to me in a dream some 10+ years ago. I entered a completely white room with no windows or doors. \u00a0As I entered, the opening behind me closed, leaving me in a totally white void space. \u00a0Suddenly I noticed a rope hanging from the side. It appeared white also, and about the size &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pick Up The Rope of the Universe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifes-lessons","category-universal-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5888,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/5888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}