{"id":696,"date":"2020-10-16T20:55:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T04:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2020-10-16T20:55:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T04:55:38","slug":"its-not-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/16\/its-not-me\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My friend gave me some new T-shirts that didn\u2019t fit him and that he never wore but when I got home and tried them on, they weren\u2019t really my style or color, so I\u2019m going to give them back to him to give to someone else. They\u2019re not me.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;re not me. What does that mean? It doesn\u2019t match who I am? No, it can\u2019t mean that because I buy new clothes that don\u2019t exactly fit with my existing set of clothes, but I think \u2018This is me\u2019 about them. So it means that those T-shirts don\u2019t match who I <em>want<\/em> to be, who I am becoming. And the beautiful thing about life is that you get to choose who you are becoming. When something bad or negative happens to you, you get to decide\u2014Are you going to let that define you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend gave me some new T-shirts that didn\u2019t fit him and that he never wore but when I got home and tried them on, they weren\u2019t really my style or color, so I\u2019m going to give them back to him to give to someone else. They\u2019re not me.\u00a0 They&#8217;re not me. What does that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/16\/its-not-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It\u2019s not me&#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-696","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\/696","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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}