{"id":1903,"date":"2017-03-05T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2017\/03\/05\/perpetual-allegory-i-kind-of-wish-that-the-idea\/"},"modified":"2017-03-05T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T18:37:10","slug":"perpetual-allegory-i-kind-of-wish-that-the-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2017\/03\/05\/perpetual-allegory-i-kind-of-wish-that-the-idea\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perpetual-allegory.tumblr.com\/post\/155063919740\/i-kind-of-wish-that-the-idea-that-you-can-just\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">perpetual-allegory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I kind of wish that the idea that you can just <i>be<\/i>\u00a0was a little more mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Like, having drive and ambition is great. But it gets drilled in kids\u2019 heads that there is some pressure to constantly be looking for the next move up, to be bigger than life. It wears you down to never be <i>satisfied<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone is destined for greatness. It just doesn\u2019t suit some people.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing wrong with having a quiet life, making enough to get by, having a small apartment where you\u2019re comfortable, and just <i>living<\/i>. You don\u2019t have to constantly be looking to go onward and upwards. Sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is to just <i>be<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>perpetual-allegory: I kind of wish that the idea that you can just be\u00a0was a little more mainstream. Like, having drive and ambition is great. But it gets drilled in kids\u2019 heads that there is some pressure to constantly be looking for the next move up, to be bigger than life. It wears you down to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2017\/03\/05\/perpetual-allegory-i-kind-of-wish-that-the-idea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[1118,1119,1117,1123,1121,1116,1115,1125,1122,1124,1120],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-i-e-an-impossible-task-mwahaha-but-srsly-its-hard","tag-living-like-that-i-mean-i-dont-have-children-lol","tag-and-doing-your-best-to-model-an-example-of-how-they-can-co-exist-harmoniously","tag-and-so-is-knowing-how-to-work-at-things-and-set-goals-and-make-plans-and-get-over-failure","tag-but-i-think-you-do-have-to-work-at-it-to-make-a-better-world-for-future-humans","tag-i-think-the-real-trick-is-giving-your-kids-the-tools-to-do-either-and-a-deep-understanding-of-the-merits-of-both","tag-i-wrote-out-a-whole-tag-rant-and-it-clarified-my-position-for-me-as-writing-is-wont-to-do-so-tldr","tag-my-philosophy","tag-so-knowing-how-to-just-be-when-you-need-to-just-be-is-good","tag-yeah","tag-you-dont-have-to-be-destined-for-greatness-to-make-a-better-world-for-future-humans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}