{"id":835,"date":"2007-05-22T14:37:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T18:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/?p=835"},"modified":"2007-05-22T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T18:37:50","slug":"something-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Something New"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to try a new approach to life.  You know, just for the fun of it.  Ha.<\/p>\n<p>I consider myself a very efficient person.  I pride myself on moving quickly and decisively.  I can whip together a meal, whirlwind clean a room, or organize a closet with lightening speed.  I&#8217;m one of those people who would rather find a way to balance 12 grocery bags full of food and make one trip rather than slowly carry in two bags at a time.  For whatever reason, I like to rush.  I like to &#8220;bang&#8221; things out.  I have little patience for the slow and steady approach.  That just isn&#8217;t me.<\/p>\n<p>But, I&#8217;ve decided that maybe I could do with a little more patience in my life.  You see, the side effect of my current break neck lifestyle is that while I can whiz through my primary objection, the secondary suffers.  For example, I can get my kids fed, diapered, clothed, shod and out the door in about 15 minutes.  (For those of you without kids, this is nothing short of a miracle.)  However, the unintended consequence of this super-human speed is that in my wake I leave a trail of dirty dishes, used diapers and strewn clothing behind me.  So when I return home, I find a whole new set of chores waiting to be done.  Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>So, my new plan is to slow down and follow through.  Sounds easy, right?  Yeah, not really.  Instead of seeing something and saying, &#8220;I&#8217;ll get to that later&#8221;, I&#8217;m trying to pause, take a minute, and clear the hurdle instead of running around.  It isn&#8217;t easy for me to do, but I&#8217;m going to give it a try.  So instead of breaking my arms carrying in 12 bags of groceries, dropping things willy-nilly, and killing my back, I am going to try and remember that life is not a race.  There is no shame in making more than one trip.  And maybe, just maybe, I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to try a new approach to life. You know, just for the fun of it. Ha. I consider myself a very efficient person. I pride myself on moving quickly and decisively. I can whip together a meal, whirlwind clean a room, or organize a closet with lightening speed. I&#8217;m one of those people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-dt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}