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“If you were a rabbit, in, say, 1956, let’s say you would spend most of your time readjusting your rabbit ears. Why? Well. Reasons of perception, my dear. Reasons of perception.”
\n\u2013 Father Rabbit pontificating about the nature of time, identity, and the perception of otherness\u00a1 but he really just talks to himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“If you were a rabbit, in, say, 1956, let’s say you would spend most of your time readjusting your rabbit ears. Why? Well. Reasons of perception, my dear. Reasons of perception.” \u2013 Father Rabbit pontificating about the nature of time, identity, and the perception of otherness\u00a1 but he really just talks to himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[147,167,17,123,64,18],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-books","category-writing","tag-humor","tag-humour","tag-philosophy","tag-poetry","tag-story","tag-time-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11076319736_007f86814c_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-rN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1870,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/rabbit-digs-the-hole\/","url_meta":{"origin":1723,"position":0},"title":"Rabbit Digs the Hole","author":"David Raffin","date":"February 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The Rabbit needed a place to rest. 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