{"id":364,"date":"2007-11-30T21:41:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T04:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=364"},"modified":"2007-11-30T21:41:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T04:41:44","slug":"new-media-polar-express-more-symbolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/11\/new-media-polar-express-more-symbolism\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW MEDIA: Polar Express &#8211; More Symbolism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">V<\/span>ery interesting, the boy who didn&#8217;t believe in Santa watches as the sleigh is prepared, the reindeer harnessed in, but he can&#8217;t hear the bells, can&#8217;t get more than a glimpse of Santa.&nbsp; Then he closes his eyes and says, I believe, I believe.&nbsp; He picks up a bell that has fallen from the sleigh and though he couldn&#8217;t hear it before, he can now hear its lovely tinkle as he shakes it.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>So.&nbsp; Does that mean then that to see and enjoy or sense the real, one must first have a belief based not empirically, but on faith?&nbsp; That may seem contradictory, but how else have discoveries been made but upon someone&#8217;s belief&#8211;only an idea&#8211;that something can be created or achieved?&nbsp; Approaching the need or desire by building a bridge of experience.<\/p>\n<p>That may bring us back again to religion, and faith creating the reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">V<\/span>ery interesting, the boy who didn&#8217;t believe in Santa watches as the sleigh is prepared, the reindeer harnessed in, but he can&#8217;t hear the bells, can&#8217;t get more than a glimpse of Santa.&nbsp; Then he closes his eyes and says, I believe, I believe.&nbsp; He picks up a bell that has fallen from the sleigh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}