{"id":266,"date":"2016-04-22T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T02:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2016-04-22T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T02:36:44","slug":"beyond-the-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">If you really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want your children going somewhere &#8211; if you are honestly and legitimately afeared for their life, the last thing you should do is forbid it. I wonder sometimes whether the people of this village know that. They are good people. Kind people. Competent people, even, though on the whole not what I would call wise. I suspect they see wisdom as outside their purview. When I am out foraging I come across them often, the children forbidden to play beyond the hedge. The first few times they will gasp and hide, hoping I did not see. Hoping I will not scold them, or tell their parents. After three or four times, when it becomes clear that I will not, the gasps will turn to giggles. I have no reason to tell their parents. I am not afraid of the forest; we are the most dangerous things here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want your children going somewhere &#8211; if you are honestly and legitimately afeared for their life, the last thing you should do is forbid it. I wonder sometimes whether the people of this village know that. They are good people. Kind people. Competent people, even, though on the whole not what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}