{"id":251,"date":"2014-06-03T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T15:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2016-01-21T21:32:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T21:32:22","slug":"the-monkey-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/the-monkey-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monkey Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I spoke briefly on the monkey trap. The fascinating thing about this trap, is not that monkeys are trapped, but that monkeys can liberate themselves from the trap, but don&#8217;t do so. The reason why they are unable to free themselves from the snare, is the same reason why too many people are unable to release themselves from the traps of life and move forward. Listen to the audio below to get the full gist of my discussion.<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/227018081&#8243; params=&#8221;color=ff5500&amp;inverse=false&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_user=true&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;20&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whileyouaresingle.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-253\" src=\"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WYAS-BLOG-AD.jpg\" alt=\"WYAS BLOG AD\" width=\"500\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WYAS-BLOG-AD.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WYAS-BLOG-AD-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I spoke briefly on the monkey trap. The fascinating thing about this trap, is not that monkeys are trapped, but that monkeys can liberate themselves from the trap, but don&#8217;t do so. The reason why they are unable to free themselves from the snare, is the same reason why too many people are unable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/the-monkey-trap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Monkey Trap<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojtoks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}