{"id":47,"date":"2014-03-26T01:51:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T01:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2024-10-10T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T19:40:10","slug":"driving-our-lives-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Driving our lives away?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\"><p>As I drive back and forth 2 hours a day I am constantly reminded of the Eddie Rabbit song, &#8220;Driving my life away&#8221;. It is interesting since I watch everyone as I drive by and how little they are paying attention to the world. Now from time to time I see the occasional song dancer, bopping to the music,\u00a0\u00a0and the series of distracted texters, readers, eaters, and a variety of people doing non-descript tasks that include everything but driving. It is the flocks of sheep, the drones that pay no attention to anything, that are curious to me. Those people who don&#8217;t even look at the moments in front of them, let alone the people to the side or behind. They follow blindly to their destination and I wonder if they are the same people who waltz through work doing as little as possible to make the day pass, never realizing that a smile or simple moment could allow them to pass the day in a much more positive manner. Why is it that many sheep are blindly happy and as many blindly sad? Yes, the &#8220;not sheep&#8221; have a variety of good and bad days as well, but the ups and downs are more prominent, with more ups as they conquer, rather than be conquered. So as I drive by the people, watching them in the window of my mind, I wonder how many lost hope in the world. After all, I am trying to understand, but have issues thinking like a sheep&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I drive back and<a href=\"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/?p=47\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-long-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liberalness","tag-driving"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bigstock-red-sunset-over-road-38709205.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnotasheep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}