{"id":1354,"date":"2003-07-02T05:10:37","date_gmt":"2003-07-02T19:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/02\/angels-or-devils\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:01:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:01:20","slug":"angels-or-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/02\/angels-or-devils\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels or Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  You ever read Eckhart? Eckhart saw it all too. You know what he said? He said the only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won&#8217;t let go of your life. Your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they&#8217;re not punishing you, he said. They&#8217;re freeing your soul. So&#8230;if you&#8217;re frightened of dying, and you&#8217;re holding on, you&#8217;ll see devils tearing your life away. But, if you&#8217;ve made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth. It&#8217;s just a matter of how you look at it, that&#8217;s all.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Louis, in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0784011168\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Jacob's Ladder\">Jacob&#8217;s Ladder<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;if you&#8217;re frightened of dying, and you&#8217;re holding on, you&#8217;ll see devils tearing your life away. But, if you&#8217;ve made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth. It&#8217;s just a matter of how you look at it, that&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2037],"tags":[201,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"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=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}