{"id":529,"date":"2022-03-17T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2022-04-28T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T16:27:45","slug":"the-legend-of-the-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of the Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Imagine you\u2019re going about your daily life. You get up, you get showered and dressed, you go out the door and leave and go shopping, or to see a friend. You go to pay your bills. You go to Ikea, Tesco, Walmart or Walgreens. You buy a coffee table in the shape of a yingyang and get it delivered next day. Whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now imagine that outside your house, and at the bottom of your street is a cave. In this cave is not your power animal, as Fight Club would have you believe, but a bear. It\u2019s sleeping. It\u2019s quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can go about your daily life and ignore the cave, you don\u2019t need to go in there, you don\u2019t need to acknowledge it. It exists, but it is not important so long as you do not go in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bear, the entity, is kind, it\u2019s cuddly, it can provide warmth as well as protection from predators beneath it. It can give you hope that, as long as it exists, all will remain peaceful and calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, don\u2019t fuck with the bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you choose to poke the bear, to make fun of it, to rouse it from it\u2019s sleep for no good reason and anger it, then it will tear off your fucking face and eat your corpse as it lays twitching on the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leave the fucking bear alone. Do not disturb it. Do not anger it. For it will bring chaos and pain like you cannot imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am the bear. And people do not leave me alone\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you\u2019re going about your daily life. You get up, you get showered and dressed, you go out the door and leave and go shopping, or to see a friend. You go to pay your bills. You go to Ikea, Tesco, Walmart or Walgreens. You buy a coffee table in the shape of a yingyang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}