{"id":1922,"date":"2009-02-21T07:29:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2014-01-20T14:23:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T19:23:16","slug":"a-chameleons-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-chameleons-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"When we leave the body behind, it&#8217;s just a lizard&#8217;s tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/lizard-tail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35159\" alt=\"lizard tail\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/lizard-tail.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>The lizard doesn&#8217;t lament the loss of the tip of his tail as it snips off in battle or play.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t hang around the tail tip and watch it decompose or bury it and visit it every week and bring it flowers.\u00a0 The lizard knows the tip of his tail, indeed his entire tail, is just a small part of him,\u00a0 A small part of the greater He.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #005700;\"><em>So when we leave one life, whether in battle or play, we may lament the body left behind, but it&#8217;s only a lizard&#8217;s tale.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-chameleons-tale\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=When we leave the body behind, it&#8217;s just a lizard&#8217;s tale&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-chameleons-tale\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-chameleons-tale\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-chameleons-tale\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=When%20we%20leave%20the%20body%20behind,%20it&#8217;s%20just%20a%20lizard&#8217;s%20tale&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-chameleons-tale\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lizard doesn&#8217;t lament the loss of the tip of his tail as it snips off in battle or play.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t hang around the tail tip and watch it decompose or bury it and visit it every week and bring it flowers.\u00a0 The lizard knows the tip of his tail, indeed his entire tail, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35161,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/35161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}