{"id":1302,"date":"2010-10-05T12:21:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2010-10-05T12:22:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T16:22:11","slug":"some-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;don&#8217;t know if I will have any earth-shattering posts for you later today&#8230;I was thinking about Boehner and his band of miscreants as one but I&#8217;m just not sure that it has jelled enough to make sense. So, I may have to let that one percolate for another day or so&#8230;I&#8217;ve just had a lot of jumbled thoughts but one that has been bothering me is a little personal and a failing that I&#8217;ve been working on for some time now. You know the issue&#8230;letting my anger boil over in my personal life..I&#8217;ve been getting angry at everyone and everything again and I, again, need to do something about it. This whole thing was triggered by another person almost running me down in a crosswalk starting out on the ride this morning&#8230;it made me so mad that I almost allowed that person to ruin my ride on this glorious Michigan fall day. It took almost 5 miles before I stopped seething and there is something wrong with that&#8230;I&#8217;ve also noticed that my driving is creeping back to aggressive again and I&#8217;m bitching about people all the time. <\/p>\n<p>So, I think my path here is quite clear&#8230;I need to start thinking about what I&#8217;m doing again; I&#8217;m going to try to not say one bad thing about anyone for the rest of the day&#8230;.I&#8217;m going to smile more than I scowl, and I&#8217;m going to try to shift into laid back mode in the car when I head out to Ada today&#8230;I know I feel better about myself when I do these things but it is harder than it looks&#8230;these behaviors have to be turned into habits just like the anger and meanness&#8230;.I hope I don&#8217;t get too relaxed that I can&#8217;t work up outrage for my posts&#8230;I wonder where the balance is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;don&#8217;t know if I will have any earth-shattering posts for you later today&#8230;I was thinking about Boehner and his band of miscreants as one but I&#8217;m just not sure that it has jelled enough to make sense. So, I may have to let that one percolate for another day or so&#8230;I&#8217;ve just had a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1302\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some thoughts&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}