{"id":5453,"date":"2016-06-10T23:58:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T06:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2016-06-11T00:02:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T07:02:56","slug":"what-would-have-your-younger-self-said-to-your-older-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5453","title":{"rendered":"What would have your younger self said to your older self?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/exuberantfool\">@exuberantfool<\/a> most likely: why did you become so boring?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jennifer Ng (@jennism) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jennism\/status\/741410046651731968\">June 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t but respond just so.<\/p>\n<p>Because in a former era, I relished the way that people clashed and conflicted.  Having spent my younger years always so guarded, I wanted to be involved.  So involved I was.  But the <i>drama<\/i>, I learned, wasn&#8217;t worth fighting and playing.  So I quieted down and prefer to remain on the sidelines.  I matured in other ways.<\/p>\n<p>But I am sure that my younger self would not like that.  Plus with all my thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Even without that generalization, my younger self would probably be in admiration.  &#8220;You have all this?&#8221; she would say.  &#8220;And you weren&#8217;t afraid?  How did you become not afraid?  How did you still get to what you wanted to do?  And stay true?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I would tell her.  But she would also be disappointed in my habits.  &#8220;What happened to writing every day?  I write every day,&#8221; she would tell me.  &#8220;I never have stopped once.  Because it&#8217;s what I do.  It&#8217;s who I am.  So then, who are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@exuberantfool most likely: why did you become so boring? &mdash; Jennifer Ng (@jennism) June 10, 2016 I couldn&#8217;t but respond just so. Because in a former era, I relished the way that people clashed and conflicted. Having spent my younger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5453\">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-5453","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\/5453","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=5453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5456,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions\/5456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}