{"id":561,"date":"2007-04-01T17:47:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T22:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2007-04-01T17:49:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T22:49:40","slug":"sometimes-you-keep-the-secret-sometimes-the-secret-keeps-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2007\/04\/sometimes-you-keep-the-secret-sometimes-the-secret-keeps-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes you keep the secret. Sometimes the secret keeps you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postsecret.com\/\">Postsecret<\/a> is what you&#8217;d get if you threw a community art project in a bag with the Catholic confessional and, I&#8217;m coming to realize, added a big heaping dose of passive-aggressive behavior.It&#8217;s a neat idea, really.  Instructions from the Postsecret site read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a hope, regret, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything &#8211; as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The passive-aggressive comes in thusly: each Sunday the site is updated with new secrets which you have, roughly, a week to look at.  Once they&#8217;re gone, they&#8217;re gone for good (or until Frank decides to replace them and then edit them into a book).  Not only can you not go back and look at them at your leisure there is no guarantee that if you send it your secret it will be judged worthy enough to display.<\/p>\n<p>There were two secrets at Postsecret today that echo things that I&#8217;ve been feeling lately.  Since we&#8217;re only allowed to post one image as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postsecret.com\/\">link back<\/a> to the site, I&#8217;m going to go with this one and hope for the best.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postsecret.com\/\" title=\"unbroken.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/unbroken.jpg\" alt=\"Postsecret from 01 April 2007\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postsecret is what you&#8217;d get if you threw a community art project in a bag with the Catholic confessional and, I&#8217;m coming to realize, added a big heaping dose of passive-aggressive behavior.It&#8217;s a neat idea, really. Instructions from the Postsecret site read: You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}