{"id":1777,"date":"2017-10-09T07:13:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T11:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2017-10-09T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T14:22:22","slug":"no-time-out-from-heartbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/no-time-out-from-heartbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"No Time Out From Heartbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/CowCrueltyPost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1778 size-large\" title=\"No Time Out From Heartbreak\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/CowCrueltyPost-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photoshops a cow trapped in the piping of a dairy products facility.\" width=\"625\" height=\"937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/CowCrueltyPost-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/CowCrueltyPost-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/CowCrueltyPost-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/CowCrueltyPost-624x936.jpg 624w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/CowCrueltyPost.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>There are some things in this world I am never going to understand.<\/p>\n<p>Like massacres. Killing. Cold-bloodedness. And inhuman cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>Last week too many mothers had their hearts broken. Their stories and the faces of their children filled my head even after I turned off the TV. I tried to escape the images of their agony, but wherever I turned, in Wegmans, in the woods, Netflix, Facebook, &#8230;their despair followed me.<\/p>\n<p>It was too difficult to write about people senselessly losing their lives. And the tormented families and friends left behind. Memories of my own pain resurfaced each time I tried.<\/p>\n<p>So I sequestered myself in the quiet corner of my living room, in the depths of my computer and the distraction of Photoshop, thinking I could paste together a pure fresh collage on a blank canvas. There was no escaping. Even there, in the limitless layers of Photoshop, I found traces of my own heartlessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some things in this world I am never going to understand. Like massacres. Killing. Cold-bloodedness. And inhuman cruelty. Last week too many mothers had their hearts broken. Their stories and the faces of their children filled my head even after I turned off the TV. I tried to escape the images of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1062],"tags":[541,1353,1349,1351,1350,1354,563,1352],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1062","tag-bereaved-parents","tag-escaping-pain","tag-harsh-reality","tag-inhuman-cruelty","tag-massacre","tag-no-time-out-from-heartbreak","tag-photoshop","tag-senseless-loss-of-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}