{"id":74,"date":"2008-05-26T09:57:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2008-05-26T09:57:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T15:57:12","slug":"ambient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/2008\/05\/ambient\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Consider this:<br \/>\n92% of the world&#8217;s population<br \/>\nfeel that their lives could be better.<br \/>\nwhat about you?<br \/>\nIf you could do anything,<br \/>\nanything at all,<br \/>\nwhat would you do?<br \/>\nWhat are you doing now?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that<br \/>\nyou could live your life,<br \/>\nknowing that it could not be better,<br \/>\nand never feeling that you would rather<br \/>\nbe doing something else,<br \/>\nbe somewhere else,<br \/>\nor be someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Now consider this:<br \/>\nsome people actually live that way<br \/>\nand so could you.<\/p>\n<p>Contemplate this:<br \/>\nWhat if 90% of the problems you encountered in your life<br \/>\nwere mere illusions and only existed in your mind?<br \/>\nIn your everyday life<br \/>\nwhenever something annoys you,<br \/>\nstresses you, makes you mad, or makes you sad,<br \/>\nconsider if that something really matters.<\/p>\n<p>Will you even remember<br \/>\nhow you felt in one day, one week, one month, one year,<br \/>\nor what about in ten years?<br \/>\nSo when the people you work for pressure you, and fail to understand you, does it really matter?<br \/>\nAnd when they call you on the phone,<br \/>\nscreaming and yelling,<br \/>\ndoes it matter and should you really allow that to influence your life?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all about choices.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this: 92% of the world&#8217;s population feel that their lives could be better. what about you? If you could do anything, anything at all, what would you do? What are you doing now? Imagine that you could live your life, knowing that it could not be better, and never feeling that you would rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1RwV4-ambient","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}