{"id":320,"date":"2012-11-20T15:29:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T20:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/~sean\/wordpress\/?p=320"},"modified":"2012-11-20T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T20:29:20","slug":"day-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/20\/day-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing on this mainly to keep it up.  I am very unsatisfied right now.  About a lot of things.  But I&#8217;m not in a position to do anything about any of them, really.  Still kind of disturbed by the election reactions;  2012 was a vote <i>against<\/i> change, responsibility.  I think it&#8217;s important to see that aspect of it&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Ten more days.  Less than two until the Thanksgiving nonsense starts.  I&#8217;m ready for my break.  And I&#8217;m also ready to give my wife her gifts, which may or may not be arriving already&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Who was (or is!) your favorite teacher? Why were they your favorite.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>High school?  Mrs. H.  College:  Hon. LL., Sen Q., Dr. C.<\/p>\n<p>Some others had an effect on me, but I shan&#8217;t mention them.  <\/p>\n<p><b>2. How would you describe yourself? How would your best friend describe you?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Does this really matter all that much?<br \/>\nMe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Practical<\/li>\n<li>Caring<\/li>\n<li>Struggling<\/li>\n<li>Half-blind<\/li>\n<li>Wobbly<\/li>\n<li>Placated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Others:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Egalitarian<\/li>\n<li>Not sick<\/li>\n<li>Drunk<\/li>\n<li>Difficult<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But back to the question I asked;  to me, it doesn&#8217;t matter so long as my wife still loves me, and I don&#8217;t hate myself.  In the last few years, some people I&#8217;ve thought were good friends have revealed themselves to be something else.  Others have drifted into their own special worlds (some slightly off).  Others, still, have just ignored everything that&#8217;s been going on with me.  *makes W sign with fingers*  It happens. I&#8217;m mostly content with my circles now.  <\/p>\n<p>Actually, you know what, I&#8217;m really content with my circles now.  Why?  I don&#8217;t have to hide things anymore.  I have approval from the people whose opinions <b><i>I<\/b><\/i> care about.  How have I done that?  Being me, flaws and all&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing on this mainly to keep it up. I am very unsatisfied right now. About a lot of things. But I&#8217;m not in a position to do anything about any of them, really. Still kind of disturbed by the election reactions; 2012 was a vote against change, responsibility. I think it&#8217;s important to see that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[26,36],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month","category-uncategorized","tag-nojomo","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}