{"id":344,"date":"2011-10-02T11:11:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T19:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=344"},"modified":"2011-10-02T11:11:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T19:11:19","slug":"this-didnt-go-into-my-practice-period-agreement-but-im-doing-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"This didn&#8217;t go into my Practice Period agreement but I&#8217;m doing it anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenjones.canyonlink.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bulwer-lytton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-347\" title=\"bulwer-lytton\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bulwer-lytton-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bulwer-lytton-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bulwer-lytton.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t know, I guess I omitted it because I thought Ezra would think it was too goofy, what I call the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulwer-lytton.com\/\">Bulwer-Lytton<\/a> exercise. One of the things I try when I&#8217;m caught up in negative emotions, as I frequently am, is to pause and say to myself, &#8220;It was a dark and stormy night.&#8221; This sets the stage for the high drama of my thinking mind, and I continue to describe my situation, only in the third person (and appropriating the corny Bulwer-Lytton style prose):<\/p>\n<p><em>It was a dark and stormy night.\u00a0She sank in a bog of depression, wishing she had never been born. I&#8217;m a failure, she thought, I&#8217;ve never accomplished anything, I live in a run-down neighborhood, the people at work hate me. She cast about for someone, something to blame: fate, her husband, her sister, her parents, her dogs. Yes, even the dogs, she realized with a pang. I can&#8217;t take them anywhere. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>And so forth. Sometimes this is just the thing to get me the remove I need when I&#8217;m spinning down, down, down. It exposes the thoughts for what they are&#8211;just thoughts&#8211;and brings some humor to the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know, I guess I omitted it because I thought Ezra would think it was too goofy, what I call the Bulwer-Lytton exercise. One of the things I try when I&#8217;m caught up in negative emotions, as I frequently am, is to pause and say to myself, &#8220;It was a dark and stormy night.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}