{"id":4191,"date":"2023-07-31T17:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T22:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2023-07-31T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T22:44:41","slug":"eleven-7-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2023\/07\/31\/eleven-7-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven (7\/31)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Freewrite<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, a lot of what I&#8217;ve been doing this month has been freewriting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s fine.  Sticking to a schedule is a big part of why I do this.  What am I supposed to be doing?  Oh yeah.  That.  But first I should write to keep the streak going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do this.  Don&#8217;t do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It kind of fits with a lot of where I am on things like the benefits of religion, even if you&#8217;re not a believer.  (And I am, but I&#8217;m really bad about taking my own advice&#8230;..I kinda am a shut-in courtesy my health&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I really have a reflexive negative reaction to public policy based on faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kind of there with people who view the weather as an existential crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/F2Ugl-5W4AAx7-0?format=jpg&amp;name=medium\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That graphic won&#8217;t get a lot of play from politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credit to <a href=\"https:\/\/humanprogress.org\">Human Progress<\/a> on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things are getting better.  But that doesn&#8217;t do a lot to keep the small number of us watching nightly and cable news afraid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m so sick of it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe my perspective is influenced by the MS diagnosis?  I reached the conclusion long ago that, yeah, I have MS.  It&#8217;s probably not going to kill me;  I&#8217;m probably gonna die of cardiovascular disease or cancer.  Just like everybody else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose, however, that sort of thinking speaks to some of my attitude about so many things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m past the halfway point in life, so&#8230;whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freewrite Obviously, a lot of what I&#8217;ve been doing this month has been freewriting. It&#8217;s fine. Sticking to a schedule is a big part of why I do this. What am I supposed to be doing? Oh yeah. That. But first I should write to keep the streak going. Do this. Don&#8217;t do that. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","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=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}