{"id":1541,"date":"2021-04-23T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2021-04-22T18:17:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T18:17:27","slug":"the-stockdale-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/the-stockdale-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stockdale Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I will gaze into the empty Void<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And fear not the gnawing Darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will embrace all the bitterness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of Truth and not be destroyed;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will never abandon Hope<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I look into the black soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though in fear of loss you grope<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the half to make you whole;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seeing not before thine eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one that completes your flame,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who stares right through your lies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And adores you all the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you run from your life and past<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fear and pain clouding your sight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look to the gift from the heart vast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Willing to walk with you in the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though anger and fear and dark may live<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In you, no matter what, I forgive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will gaze into the empty Void And fear not the gnawing Darkness. I will embrace all the bitterness of Truth and not be destroyed; I will never abandon Hope As I look into the black soul. Though in fear of loss you grope For the half to make you whole; Seeing not before thine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Good-to-Great_Stockdale-Paradox1-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}