{"id":286,"date":"2020-04-19T20:03:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T04:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2020-04-19T20:04:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T04:04:10","slug":"the-worst-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/19\/the-worst-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The worst of it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m an optimist and don\u2019t tend to think about the bad and the worst but today I was surfing 5-7 foot waves and 7-foot waves are pushing the limits of what I\u2019m comfortable with so I tried to sit closer to the beach where the 5-foot waves would be but the problem is that sitting there I still had to deal with the 7-foot waves breaking and then coming towards me even if I wasn\u2019t trying to surf them. Sometimes when you make a decision, you commit yourself to all of the items in the group. A bag of apples might have a bad one. A classroom of students might have some difficult students. Nothing wrong with making these types of choices, it\u2019s just helpful to recognize when you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m an optimist and don\u2019t tend to think about the bad and the worst but today I was surfing 5-7 foot waves and 7-foot waves are pushing the limits of what I\u2019m comfortable with so I tried to sit closer to the beach where the 5-foot waves would be but the problem is that sitting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/19\/the-worst-of-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The worst of it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}