{"id":539,"date":"2016-03-16T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/?p=539"},"modified":"2016-03-16T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:01:07","slug":"chill-out-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/2016\/03\/16\/chill-out-dude\/","title":{"rendered":"Chill out, dude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I struggled thinking about what I should write for this blog post, and initially thought to write about procrastination. Then I decided that this subject was horribly cliched and overdone, and so for a great deal of time I thought about which subject I should tackle. About which subject I could write on extensively, and make concise, insightful points on in a limited space. Brevity is the sole of wit, or whatever. I then had a revelation in which I concluded that this is just a blog post, and I have many, many other things which deserve a great deal of my consideration and attention.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a message here? A moral, even? As someone who spends great amounts of time unnecessarily sweating over various trivialities and responsibilities where not much is at stake, I\u2019d like to impart some wisdom: Prioritize your responsibilities. Stress is a good motivator, but it should be rationed. You can only push yourself so hard before you shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, lecture\u2019s over. Go write assignments and stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I struggled thinking about what I should write for this blog post, and initially thought to write about procrastination. Then I decided that this subject was horribly cliched and overdone, and so for a great deal of time I thought about which subject I should tackle. About which subject I could write on extensively, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}