{"id":1008,"date":"2010-03-01T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/03\/01\/at-what-cost\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T05:51:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T05:51:28","slug":"at-what-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/03\/01\/at-what-cost","title":{"rendered":"At what cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of a certain &#8220;issue,&#8221; I recalled a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/22\/fine\">song I wrote in the past<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It had a fairly &#8220;generic&#8221; message I guess, but I couldn&#8217;t help but feel how apt the message could be for <em>both<\/em> sides &#8211; how both <strong>indecision<\/strong> <em>and<\/em> <strong>closed-mindedness<\/strong> don&#8217;t lead anywhere productive. If we all had the mindset of what the song had suggested, we could&#8217;ve avoided it altogether (wether it be by one side acting sooner, or the other simply being more receptive)<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/120680521&#038;color=ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=true\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<div class=\"caption bottom\">Lyrics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/22\/fine\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I just felt the need to vent out my frustrations because of how long the negative energy was allowed to &#8220;fester&#8221; before it was finally addressed (not to mention <em>what it took<\/em> to actually address it). Relationships had been needlessly strained because of the shortcomings of <strong>both<\/strong> sides, that much is certain.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the worst <em>seems<\/em> to be over&#8230; but at what cost? <em>(sigh)<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you just hate how true the term <em>&#8220;hindsight is always 20\/20&#8221;<\/em> is most of the time?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of a certain &#8220;issue,&#8221; I recalled a song I wrote in the past. It had a fairly &#8220;generic&#8221; message I guess, but I couldn&#8217;t help but feel how apt the message could be for both sides &#8211; how both indecision and closed-mindedness don&#8217;t lead anywhere productive. If we all had the mindset of &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/03\/01\/at-what-cost\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At what cost&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[11],"tags":[896],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perspective","tag-perspective"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}