{"id":8874,"date":"2025-05-19T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8874"},"modified":"2025-06-01T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T13:19:39","slug":"heisenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8874","title":{"rendered":"heisenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I watch people gripped by fear for a future that hasn\u2019t arrived, and when I try to say gently, <em>this panic is over something not here yet<\/em>, it only deepens their distress. As if naming the illusion offends the illusion. Why should I try convincing my twelve-year-old daughter that Sun Ra is more interesting than Chappell Roan? No seventh grader is listening to a man who claimed to be from Saturn dressed like a pharaoh. She wants something earthbound and bright, not celestial jazz riddles from another age. I lent Soozi a book about consciousness. Weeks later, she asked what <em>enlightened<\/em> means. The moment I tried to answer, I realized trying to explain it obscures it. The light you point to goes dim as soon as you call it light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watch people gripped by fear for a future that hasn\u2019t arrived, and when I try to say gently, this panic is over something not here yet, it only deepens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8874\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[877],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-8874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}