{"id":1773,"date":"2012-06-24T19:38:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T02:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2012-06-24T19:38:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T02:38:51","slug":"no-place-for-self-pity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/06\/no-place-for-self-pity\/","title":{"rendered":"no place for self-pity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been battling with self-pity this weekend&#8211;this week really. See, I have REALLY GOOD REASONS to feel put upon.<\/p>\n<p>I have been put upon. Isn&#8217;t that \u00a0good reason to feel frustrated and sorry for myself?<\/p>\n<p>except upon further reflection, I realize<\/p>\n<p>there are never good reasons to feel sorry for myself.<\/p>\n<p>What purpose does it serve? Is it a pain that indicates a needed change in behavior? Then okay, change the behavior. It is only an indicator.<\/p>\n<p>And if the change takes time to implement, the throb should be endured with courage and fortitude, not<\/p>\n<p>self-pity<\/p>\n<p>whining<\/p>\n<p>Because it is an action. I don&#8217;t need to be afraid. Afraid is for cowards<\/p>\n<p>Cowards feel very sorry for themselves. I dont want to have something in common with cowardice.<\/p>\n<p>No, it is hard. It is a struggle. But self-pity never did nobody any good. \u00a0And it is not something I should indulge in<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MIND HOW VERY RIGHT I AM<\/p>\n<p>That is not the point. THe point is always, what am I going to do about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been battling with self-pity this weekend&#8211;this week really. See, I have REALLY GOOD REASONS to feel put upon. I have been put upon. Isn&#8217;t that \u00a0good reason to feel frustrated and sorry for myself? except upon further reflection, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/06\/no-place-for-self-pity\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/1773","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=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}