{"id":1493,"date":"2012-03-05T14:17:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2012-05-24T16:21:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T23:21:57","slug":"if-you-want-it-you-measure-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/03\/if-you-want-it-you-measure-it\/","title":{"rendered":"if you want it, you measure it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I had a paper to right for an assignment, and the assignment was to turn in so many pages, I got very good at knowing how to use fonts and margins to my advantage.<\/p>\n<p>When the measure was number of words, I knew how to string those together.<\/p>\n<p>When I myself wanted quality writing, well&#8230;that was something else altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, when I want something to be a certain way, I pay attention. I get out the scale nearly every morning.<\/p>\n<p>And if I want to lose weight, i pay attention to the amount of veggies I&#8217;m eating.<\/p>\n<p>I know of certain people who talk about what they want.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It should be thus and so&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But they are not measuring. Or maybe they start measuring, but they don&#8217;t do anything about the measures.<\/p>\n<p>If i weigh myself in the morning, but do not think about and be disciplined with my eating, I am not really doing anything with that measure.<\/p>\n<p>If i find that someone is talking about it, but not measuring it, they are getting the good they want. The talk is enough for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I had a paper to right for an assignment, and the assignment was to turn in so many pages, I got very good at knowing how to use fonts and margins to my advantage. When the measure was number &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/03\/if-you-want-it-you-measure-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookworthy","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}