{"id":4234,"date":"2014-01-21T11:03:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T19:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:37:12","slug":"i-got-practically-nothing-done-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2014\/01\/21\/i-got-practically-nothing-done-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"I got practically nothing done yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I did manage to pick up a shiny new set of trial contact lenses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I CAN SEE!<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My eyes have been changing about every year, to year &amp; a half, and that bites the big one.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just another reminder that I&#8217;m getting <strong>old<\/strong>. As if looking in the mirror isn&#8217;t enough of a reminder!<\/p>\n<p>I started the day pretty normally and then went to run just a couple of errands which turned into more errands and rapidly spun into a fur ball of stuff that I needed to get done but that took a lot longer than I thought it would.<\/p>\n<p>No complaints, just one of those things that seems to happen with some frequency.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Recently, I was having a conversation about the narcissism of Twitter. In point of fact all social media is about narcissism. I include blogging in that wide brush stroke as well.<\/p>\n<p>After all who cares that you&#8217;re at a particular restaurant or store? Who really cares that you&#8217;re having a good or bad day aside, from perhaps your mother or spouse?<\/p>\n<p>And lets be real, who really cares about your opinion?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4236\" alt=\"Unknown\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Unknown.jpeg\" width=\"180\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s a somewhat sobering slap in the face to a lot of folks who claim to be &#8220;addicted&#8221; to social media.<\/p>\n<p>Even knowing all this, we still cast our opinions and daily events onto the digital stream, for all the world to read and judge.<\/p>\n<p>I still write blogs that people sometimes read. I still occasionally tweet my opinion out into the world.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes people find those blogs or comments funny and other times, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>The point is none of us should be taking any of this social media stuff seriously. My opinions are like everyone else&#8217;s, plentiful and in the end, to be taken with a block of salt.<\/p>\n<p>A little narcissistic introspection isn&#8217;t a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>Just remember to look critically at yourself when you look into the mirror.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I did manage to pick up a shiny new set of trial contact lenses. &#8220;I CAN SEE!&#8221; My eyes have been changing about every year, to year &amp; a half, and that bites the big one. It&#8217;s just another reminder that I&#8217;m getting old. As if looking in the mirror isn&#8217;t enough of a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2014\/01\/21\/i-got-practically-nothing-done-yesterday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I got practically nothing done yesterday&#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":[10,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-problems","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234","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=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4237,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions\/4237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}