{"id":965,"date":"2016-01-15T10:08:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T19:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2016-01-15T10:08:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T19:08:27","slug":"denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You and [his son, who&#8217;s a doctor] are very big into truth, truth, truth, yes, yes, yes. But denial &#8211; respect denial. It&#8217;s very important in the human architecture. It&#8217;s what we do when we can&#8217;t face what the world throws at us. It&#8217;s what helps us get up in the morning, until enough mornings pass that we begin to walk upright in the world.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;<a href=\"http:\/\/ronsuskind.com\/\">Ron Suskind<\/a>, quoting his friend Max Pluskey<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From a talk at Calvin College talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/09\/magazine\/reaching-my-autistic-son-through-disney.html?\">story behind his book<\/a>, <cite>Life, Animated<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>(Cross-posted from my <a href=\"https:\/\/jewellakeparishpastor.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/15\/denial\/\">other blog<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You and [his son, who&#8217;s a doctor] are very big into truth, truth, truth, yes, yes, yes. But denial &#8211; respect denial. It&#8217;s very important in the human architecture. It&#8217;s what we do when we can&#8217;t face what the world throws at us. It&#8217;s what helps us get up in the morning, until enough mornings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[23],"tags":[901,899,900,269,112,570,902],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-animated","tag-autism","tag-denial","tag-disney","tag-life-2","tag-quotes","tag-ron-suskind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saRqpr-denial","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}