{"id":27711,"date":"2021-02-18T07:56:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27711"},"modified":"2021-02-16T16:12:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T22:12:19","slug":"true-to-my-life-and-my-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/18\/true-to-my-life-and-my-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"True To My Life and My Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Quickbooks ad made the rounds on television this season:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bx2svZzFzw8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I chuckled, because it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>My martial arts school awards black belts with special jackets and belts with the student&#8217;s name (and the school&#8217;s name) on them.<\/p>\n<p>I, however, only wear those to testing, which means I only wore my first degree black belt and jacket four times: Once when I received it, briefly, and then every time I tested until I got my second degree.  My second degree belt and jacket I wore only once, when I was awarded them almost two years ago.  I am a little behind in the testing process given the events of the last couple of years; I should wear it for a formal occasion sometime soon.<\/p>\n<p>For classes, I have a well-worn <em>gi<\/em> and a plain black belt that I have worn since I was awarded the black belt (although I might have replaced the <em>gi<\/em> since then).  This is, of course, my <em>casual gi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So I can relate.  Also, I use QuickBooks for my business, but not the live assistance since I <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/10\/better-than-my-attorney-bernie\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">have an accountant<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Quickbooks ad made the rounds on television this season: I chuckled, because it&#8217;s true. My martial arts school awards black belts with special jackets and belts with the student&#8217;s name (and the school&#8217;s name) on them. I, however, only wear those to testing, which means I only wore my first degree black belt and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27712,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27711\/revisions\/27712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}