{"id":4553,"date":"2015-04-29T15:57:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2015-04-29T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:57:42","slug":"on-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/on-need\/","title":{"rendered":"On Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our most fundamental needs are for water, food, and shelter.<\/p>\n<p>Or are they?<\/p>\n<p>What of air?\u00a0 Is our most fundamental need, not air?<\/p>\n<p>Air is the product of what? The component of air that is oxygen, {about 20%} is produced by trees, which also filter air by removing excess carbon.<\/p>\n<p>So perhaps our most fundamental need is for trees?<\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t think it is that either.\u00a0 I think our most fundamental need is for beauty. Thankfully beauty abounds in virtually everything, and virtually everywhere. All we need do is seek it, and we find it.<\/p>\n<p>Is the air not beautiful? When it is clean it is, but when it is dirty?\u00a0 Well, the air is still beautiful, but the pollution we pump into it?\u00a0 Not so much.\u00a0 So I must ask you this, if pollution is not so beautiful, why do we produce so much?<\/p>\n<p>Our most fundamental need is not air, water, food, shelter, or beauty.\u00a0 Our most fundamental need is for everything.\u00a0 You see&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Everything<br \/>matters.<br \/>Everything.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/593515246305718273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>Everything matters. Everything.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our most fundamental needs are for water, food, and shelter. Or are they? What of air?\u00a0 Is our most fundamental need, not air? Air is the product of what? The component of air that is oxygen, {about 20%} is produced by trees, which also filter air by removing excess carbon. So perhaps our most fundamental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,279],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-beauty","tag-need"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}