{"id":3641,"date":"2022-05-09T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2022-04-15T10:19:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T15:19:30","slug":"the-edge-and-the-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/05\/the-edge-and-the-center\/","title":{"rendered":"The Edge and the Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The edge is that area between the center of two places. Things are different at the edge. Try to remember the difference.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently spent a few of strenuous days cleaning a fence row. A fence row comprises the ground a couple feet each side of a fence. In my case, the fence separated a lawn from a patch of woods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is brush, weeds, and overgrown weeds in a fence row. It is quite difficult to clear all this\u2014especially at my age with the limited set of tools I had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brush doesn&#8217;t grow in the woods. There isn&#8217;t enough sunlight reaching the ground for that type of growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brush doesn&#8217;t grow in the lawn. You mow the lawn regularly with a lawn mower and the brush doesn&#8217;t have a chance to take root and grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brush grows in the edge\u2014not in the center of either side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The edge is not like the center. Things are different there. Lessons from the edge should not be applied to the center. I find it wise to know when I am at the center and when I am at the edge. The edge is not like the center. Things are different there. Lessons from the edge should not be applied to the center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips The edge is that area between the center of two places. Things are different at the edge. Try to remember the difference. I recently spent a few of strenuous days cleaning a fence row. A fence row comprises the ground a couple feet each side of a fence. In my case, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,435,45,63,20,284,6],"tags":[171,438,167,183,142,285,129],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-context","category-differences","category-expectations","category-learning","category-notice","category-observation","tag-adapting","tag-context","tag-differences","tag-expectations","tag-learning","tag-notice","tag-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}