{"id":123,"date":"2001-04-20T00:15:19","date_gmt":"2001-04-20T07:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=123"},"modified":"2019-11-21T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T22:24:55","slug":"about-my-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/04\/20\/about-my-tattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"About my tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2001\/04\/wudi_tat_1.jpg\" title=\"My tattoo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"My tattoo\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2001\/04\/wudi_tat_1-thumb.jpg\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>This actually came about from an e-mail I was writing tonight, and I thought it was a bit too good to lose into the great bit bucket in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>The meaning behind it&#8230;well, it&#8217;s kind of my life view. I&#8217;ve always liked the concept of the yin-yang &#8212; that in life there is always light and dark, good and bad, and they&#8217;re intertwined and essential to each other, you can&#8217;t have one without the other, and if you did, then it would render it meaningless without the other as a comparison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2001\/04\/wudi_tat_3.jpg\" title=\"My tattoo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"My tattoo\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2001\/04\/wudi_tat_3-thumb.jpg\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>But when I found the design with the smileys integrated into it, it really struck a chord with me, in that much of my outlook on life is that no matter what happens to me, good or bad, there will always be something to balance it, and when things do get bad, one, they&#8217;ll get better at some point, and two, there is <em>always<\/em> something to laugh at or smile about in whatever&#8217;s going on in order to help me make it through it. I&#8217;ve seen lots of people get amazingly depressed over some stuff that, while it may seem mindblowing at first, always has some benefit to it. I guess it&#8217;s kind of related to two overused sayings &#8212; &#8220;For every cloud there is a silver lining&#8221;, and Nietzche&#8217;s (sp?) &#8220;What does not kill me makes me stronger&#8221;, but it&#8217;s not really either of those through and through&#8230;just something that means a lot to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This actually came about from an e-mail I was writing tonight, and I thought it was a bit too good to lose into the great bit bucket in the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}