{"id":287,"date":"2008-11-23T09:23:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T09:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2008-11-23T09:23:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T09:23:05","slug":"gloomy-sunday-bright-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Gloomy Sunday &#8211; Bright Outlook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pausing for thought early on a Sunday morning I consider the connection of events and circumstances that put me here. Fate is a funny thing, I strive to accept it and move on and don&#8217;t yield to the sometimes seductive pull of self-pity. After all portraying myself as a victim will only threaten the future as uncertain as it is. My overall outlook is positive, I&#8217;m very fortunate in lots of ways just a bit unlucky at times, my biggest failing is motivation, I draw that from motivated people and if they are nowhere to be seen I tend to stagnate. But when I have that alter-ego to bolster me I can be very constructive. So I have kicked and screamed a bit recently for that attention I need to progress and so far, things are going well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pausing for thought early on a Sunday morning I consider the connection of events and circumstances that put me here. Fate is a funny thing, I strive to accept it and move on and don&#8217;t yield to the sometimes seductive pull of self-pity. After all portraying myself as a victim will only threaten the future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}