{"id":3879,"date":"2012-03-05T23:18:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T07:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2012-03-05T23:18:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T07:18:56","slug":"its-just-going-to-pinch-a-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3879","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s just going to pinch a little"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>About a third of the self-help books that cross my desk could be distilled to two things: first, if you can tolerate a little discomfort, you can achieve almost any goal; and second, it&#8217;s amazing the lengths we&#8217;ll go to to avoid discomfort. <\/i> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2012\/feb\/24\/two-things-to-know-oliver-burkeman\">The Two Things Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For me, I can&#8217;t help but be who I am.  The quirks, the weaknesses, the affinity to certain anxieties.  It&#8217;s hard to pretend to be someone else, but it&#8217;s harder to just say <i>this is who I am, so accept me<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a third of the self-help books that cross my desk could be distilled to two things: first, if you can tolerate a little discomfort, you can achieve almost any goal; and second, it&#8217;s amazing the lengths we&#8217;ll go to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3879\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}