{"id":151,"date":"2006-08-29T21:13:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T21:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=151"},"modified":"2006-08-29T21:13:29","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T21:13:29","slug":"why-do-i-even-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/29\/why-do-i-even-bother\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do I even bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now I don&#8217;t like things.<\/p>\n<p>Life is a story &#8211; that&#8217;s a well documented <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Metaphor\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metaphor\">metaphor<\/a>. Mine is one of many interwoven threads, as I expect most are. The trouble is that right now, my story is far too complicated for me to follow. Too difficult to read anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll just muddle through until the happy ending appears.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now I don&#8217;t like things. Life is a story &#8211; that&#8217;s a well documented metaphor. Mine is one of many interwoven threads, as I expect most are. The trouble is that right now, my story is far too complicated for me to follow. Too difficult to read anymore. I think I&#8217;ll just muddle through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[83,312,752,1015,1798,1807,1962,2523,2685,2784,2876,3124,3130],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-83","tag-august","tag-complicated","tag-education","tag-linguistics","tag-literature","tag-metaphor","tag-recreation","tag-semantics","tag-social-sciences","tag-story","tag-unhappy","tag-united-states","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-2r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}