{"id":575,"date":"2020-08-22T21:28:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T05:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2020-08-22T21:29:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T05:29:52","slug":"mentioning-it-makes-it-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/22\/mentioning-it-makes-it-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentioning it makes it real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can\u2019t mention that you <em>might<\/em> make chocolate chip cookies to a kid. Might means can. Might means will. Might doesn\u2019t mean maybe. Mentioning it makes it real. And then you have to follow through.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if that were the case with the words we speak to ourselves?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I might look for a new job. I might take time off. I might invest my savings in something. I might write a book. I might buy a mountain bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What might you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t mention that you might make chocolate chip cookies to a kid. Might means can. Might means will. Might doesn\u2019t mean maybe. Mentioning it makes it real. And then you have to follow through.&nbsp; What if that were the case with the words we speak to ourselves?&nbsp; I might look for a new job. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/22\/mentioning-it-makes-it-real\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mentioning it makes it real&#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-575","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\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}