{"id":1045,"date":"2012-08-04T06:15:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2021-08-26T18:39:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:39:41","slug":"you-know-im-too-easily-distracted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/08\/04\/you-know-im-too-easily-distracted\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know&#8230; I&#8217;m too easily distracted."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But then I get pissy because my distractibility leads me to doing stuff that isn&#8217;t actually forwarding my goals.<\/p>\n<p>My God Son indirectly pointed this out to me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He asked how the book was going and was genuinely interested.<\/p>\n<p>The book is moving forward. It&#8217;s just that it&#8217;s moving too slowly for my expectations. BUT THAT&#8217;S Nobodys fault but mine.<\/p>\n<p>I have to learn to be more even tempered&#8230; at my ancient age you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d have this stuff down pat but I don&#8217;t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m stressing internally about a lot of things. I want to finish the book, I need to find a new job and if I find a new job out of state&#8230; I&#8217;ll be forced to make a decision between a long relationship and being able to support not only myself but others as well.<\/p>\n<p>However, that too is something that isn&#8217;t reason enough to get pissy.<\/p>\n<p>Again, the people that care about me and love me shouldn&#8217;t have to put up with me being an asshole.<\/p>\n<p>What reason do they have to love me at all if all they ever get from me is snottiness because I&#8217;m all wrapped up in my shit?<\/p>\n<p>I really have to get my shit right and remember that the people who love me must always have a special place in my head and my heart that is free of external B.S. They should always know that I care very much about them, and the only way I can make sure of that is to make sure is to show them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But then I get pissy because my distractibility leads me to doing stuff that isn&#8217;t actually forwarding my goals. My God Son indirectly pointed this out to me.&nbsp; He asked how the book was going and was genuinely interested. The book is moving forward. It&#8217;s just that it&#8217;s moving too slowly for my expectations. BUT &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/08\/04\/you-know-im-too-easily-distracted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You Know&#8230; I&#8217;m too easily distracted.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,20,3,8],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assholes","category-doghouse","category-general","category-men","tag-male"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}