{"id":564,"date":"2020-08-17T17:29:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T01:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T01:29:56","slug":"you-be-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/17\/you-be-you\/","title":{"rendered":"You be you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My son is adventurous but quick to scream for a Band-Aid. One day when he was not being as adventurous as I would have hoped, I sighed to my wife, \u201cI can\u2019t live his life for him.\u201d But that\u2019s exactly the point, isn\u2019t it? The last thing in the world that I\u2019m supposed to do is live his life for him! Otherwise there would be 2 of me here and not 1 of me and 1 of him. He\u2019s here to be him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You be you. That\u2019s what you\u2019re supposed to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son is adventurous but quick to scream for a Band-Aid. One day when he was not being as adventurous as I would have hoped, I sighed to my wife, \u201cI can\u2019t live his life for him.\u201d But that\u2019s exactly the point, isn\u2019t it? The last thing in the world that I\u2019m supposed to do &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/17\/you-be-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You be you&#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-564","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\/564","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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}