{"id":2483,"date":"2022-11-01T11:41:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T19:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:06:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:06:58","slug":"whats-the-thing-in-your-life-that-youve-looked-at-more-than-anything-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/2483","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the thing in your life that you&#8217;ve looked at more than anything else?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ernst_mach.gif\" alt=\"Ernst Mach &quot;Reclining&quot;\" width=\"439\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2484\" \/>What&#8217;s the thing in your life that you&#8217;ve looked at more than anything else?  Your walls? Your mom? Your hands?  Not counting the backs of your eyelids, the right answer is your nose and brow. They&#8217;ve always been there, right in front of you, taking up a steady twentieth or so of your vision every waking moment. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s important because to have access to wonder, the joy of knowing you don&#8217;t know, you need to realize there are things that are right there that you can&#8217;t notice. If you&#8217;re wired to miss the obvious, then how can you be confident of anything? <\/p>\n<p>There are answers, of course, but the question has always haunted me, and still does. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the thing in your life that you&#8217;ve looked at more than anything else? Your walls? Your mom? Your hands? Not counting the backs of your eyelids, the right answer is your nose and brow. They&#8217;ve always been there, right in front of you, taking up a steady twentieth or so of your vision every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/2483\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s the thing in your life that you&#8217;ve looked at more than anything else?<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":["default"],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}