{"id":53,"date":"2007-05-06T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2007-05-06T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T05:00:06","slug":"journey-of-self-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/06\/journey-of-self-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey of Self-Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I see one more person act like being poly is a journey of self-discovery (as if that&#8217;s what makes poly valuable) I may vomit &#8212; Or at least make myself a stiff martini as anesthesia.<\/p>\n<p>That martini becomes a double if it sneers at monogamous people for <em>not<\/em> doing it.  No, better yet, go find a monastery, any religion you choose, and tell them that because they&#8217;re not poly no-one there is on a journey of self discovery.   Though, monks and nuns, generally being more spiritual and evolved than I am, would probably just smile and say, &#8220;Is that so?&#8221; and go back to adding to the calluses and meditating on other things.<\/p>\n<p>If <em>life<\/em> isn&#8217;t a journey of discovery for you, you&#8217;re missing the point, I don&#8217;t give a damn what you&#8217;re doing with the slippery bits.<\/p>\n<p>Polyamory is not better than monogamy.  It&#8217;s just different.  It&#8217;s a taste, and it&#8217;s a taste that in a sane would would be no more significant than a preference for Coke or Pepsi.  Poly people aren&#8217;t better or stronger or nicer or more loving.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re just people, for heaven&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/80x15-digg-badge-2.png\" width=\"80\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Digg!\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I see one more person act like being poly is a journey of self-discovery (as if that&#8217;s what makes poly valuable) I may vomit &#8212; Or at least make myself a stiff martini as anesthesia. That martini becomes a double if it sneers at monogamous people for not doing it. No, better yet, go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-polyamory-community"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}