{"id":3145,"date":"2015-04-07T00:22:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2015-04-06T20:13:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T12:13:03","slug":"f-for-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=3145","title":{"rendered":"F for Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fate is a funny thing. It can be fickle; deciding at one point you would meet someone and then changing its mind to decide that the person would leave you. In such a case, the Chinese would call it \u6709\u7de3\u7121\u5206, i.e. fated to meet but not destined to be together. Which, by the way, really sucks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always wondered if fate is really in our own hands. I suppose it is to a certain extent. You can work hard at something to change certain situations. But sometimes, you can&#8217;t help but conclude that perhaps things were just meant to be. The result wouldn&#8217;t be any different no matter what you could have tried to do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fate is a funny thing. It can be fickle; deciding at one point you would meet someone and then changing its mind to decide that the person would leave you. In such a case, the Chinese would call it \u6709\u7de3\u7121\u5206, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=3145\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}