{"id":4445,"date":"2023-12-22T22:04:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T03:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2023-12-22T22:04:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T03:04:35","slug":"quitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/quitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Quitting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">For All Mankind<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried hard, but this <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/podcast\/2023\/12\/13\/annie-duke-quitting-is-totally-underrated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">discussion<\/a> kept running through my head as I watched Ep. 1.  While I was going to give it at least one episode, I just couldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The speech about Chicago 1968 finally prompted the stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I could have done it before&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Ted Kennedy cancelled his trip to Chappaquiddick to deal with the news that the Soviets had gotten there first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or when the controlling Navy wife was upset that her husband wasn&#8217;t going to go after drunkenly shooting his mouth off to a reporter, and the prospect of him going to Pax River or to Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or the fact that her name was &#8220;Karen.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m not wasting much more time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m really bad at giving up on things that just aren&#8217;t working for me.  See:  my work history from 2013-2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m wrong, but I can&#8217;t bring myself to try on that anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m progressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For All Mankind I tried hard, but this discussion kept running through my head as I watched Ep. 1. While I was going to give it at least one episode, I just couldn&#8217;t. The speech about Chicago 1968 finally prompted the stop. But I could have done it before&#8230; When Ted Kennedy cancelled his trip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","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=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}