{"id":2222,"date":"2015-02-23T19:44:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2015-02-28T05:05:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T05:05:57","slug":"the-chest-beaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/?p=2222","title":{"rendered":"The Chest-Beaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-xpa1\/v\/t1.0-9\/10929190_873810412664855_8548714091944720738_n.jpg?oh=0f63166be52a50ae9a40c300859e07df&amp;oe=557F359B&amp;__gda__=1434956067_ecd066ce02c66d638c506bca136aea8e\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nby Thomas LeRoy<br \/>\n&#8220;I walked the path to the left!&#8221; said a man, beating his chest, in the village square. &#8220;I know all there is to know of it&#8217;s ups and downs, it&#8217;s hills and valleys, its crags and meadows.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnother man stood and he, too, beat his chest proclaiming, &#8220;I have faced the demons on the path! I have conquered them and have made them my slaves!&#8221; <span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nAnd still another. &#8220;Lo, I have trekked where no man has trekked before! I have seen sights that would melt the eyes of most men!&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd another.&#8221;I have tasted the spices of Hell, and have drunk the mead of Hades! Cerberus, I have made my pet, and Kali my lover! Satan and Shiva have bowed down before me for I am divine! I am my own God!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Excuse me,&#8221; said the Individual, raising his hand.<br \/>\nBut the others kept pounding their chests, trying to out-do one another in volume and bombast.<br \/>\n&#8220;Excuse me!&#8221;<br \/>\nThe square went quiet for a moment.<br \/>\n&#8220;I have a question,&#8221; said the Individual. &#8220;If you all had been on the path, and have found your divinity, then why are you still here in the village?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Thomas LeRoy &#8220;I walked the path to the left!&#8221; said a man, beating his chest, in the village square. &#8220;I know all there is to know of it&#8217;s ups and downs, it&#8217;s hills and valleys, its crags and meadows.&#8221; Another man stood and he, too, beat his chest proclaiming, &#8220;I have faced the demons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BLIO-zQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}