{"id":9830,"date":"2011-08-11T07:26:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T12:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9830"},"modified":"2011-08-11T07:26:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T12:26:31","slug":"words-to-live-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/words-to-live-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Words To Live By"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You know, reading this has changed my life. The first thing I’m going to tell myself when I get up in the morning is Today, we will first secure the goat.<\/em> Me, I will use that royal ‘we’ inside my own head because goat-securing sounds like a two-person job, even metaphorically.<\/p>\n

When someone lets me down, I will express my disappointment by telling that person that he did not secure the goat.<\/em><\/p>\n

And I will ask myself as I lie in bed, going to sleep (or staring at the ceiling, depending upon what I think the answer will be): Did I secure the goat today?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know, reading this has changed my life. The first thing I’m going to tell myself when I get up in the morning is Today, we will first secure the goat. Me, I will use that royal ‘we’ inside my own head because goat-securing sounds like a two-person job, even metaphorically. When someone lets me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830","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=9830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9832,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions\/9832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}