{"id":37,"date":"2008-04-05T18:29:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T18:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-04-05T18:29:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T18:29:13","slug":"seeing-is-believing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Is Believing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I wonder about that. Yesterday, I was returning from Santa Rosa, and saw a &#8220;fake&#8221; cow. You know, one of those black and white &#8220;California&#8221; cows that produces the milk that makes the great cheese. Hopefully you have the picture now. This &#8220;statue&#8221; was so realistic looking &#8211; even had bones sticking up on her back. Not skinny type bones, just the bones that are on cows backs.<\/p>\n<p>It was so real looking that the give away was how it&#8217;s tail kind of wagged the same as the mechanical cows in window displays. Better description is the cat tail on a halloween costume &#8211; just kind of rotates from the attachment point like a big crank or a winder. I thought, &#8220;what a great picture to advertise California cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the cow moved it&#8217;s head, ate some grass and raised it&#8217;s head. Oops, my mistake. It was a real cow &#8211; how did I make that mistake. Was it that fake cows look so much like the real thing, that on seeing the real thing, I could not tell the difference?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s how it is with our lives &#8211; it&#8217;s what we look like as we live every day. How we live (&#8220;do&#8221;) our lives is all people have to go by. So, if we look like the real thing, but don&#8217;t, won&#8217;t or can&#8217;t do the real things, then they see that we are fakers. Maybe I need to change the way I live so that others see by my actions that I am what I really look like or say I am. Maybe this is what James was talking about when he said &#8220;by our works&#8221; we are known. What if there aren&#8217;t any works? What if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I wonder about that. Yesterday, I was returning from Santa Rosa, and saw a &#8220;fake&#8221; cow. You know, one of those black and white &#8220;California&#8221; cows that produces the milk that makes the great cheese. Hopefully you have the&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/?p=37\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}