{"id":3778,"date":"2015-07-29T12:37:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T19:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2015-07-28T20:40:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T03:40:01","slug":"pretty-justin-simply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2015\/07\/pretty-justin-simply\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Justin Simply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is always moving, always doing. That&#8217;s the nature of it, small or large there is humming and forward motion.<\/p>\n<p>I often overlook all the things that are happening when I feel frustrated or bored. I get frustrated and bored easily.<\/p>\n<p>I wish that more were happening. I can think of so many thing I want to happen, and big goals I want to achieve. I forget what is already happening.<\/p>\n<p>While I was working on the last few agonizingly slow steps to get The Russian American School of Tomorrow published, I used a computer program to clean up the writing.<\/p>\n<p>This bot looked for passive voice and overuse of certain words, and helped me to make my writing as clear and direct as I could get it.<\/p>\n<p>Right away my bot told me what I already knew: nothing is simply. Simply has no place in my writing. If I simply do things, I do things.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing simple about it. I do it. Doing it is enough.<\/p>\n<p>I had even more Justs. Just forget about the justs. Forget about the justs.<\/p>\n<p>Yoda had it right. Do. Or do not. There is no just.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an equivocation. I put those words in a row. And the words are describing stuff I did.<\/p>\n<p>I could say I did a pretty good job.<\/p>\n<p>I will not say that. Pretty is as pretty does.<\/p>\n<p>I did a good job.<\/p>\n<p>All actions are happening and powerful. Pretty, Just and Simply are softening the impact. These words distance the audience, and in many cases the audience is my own self. I have so much power and ability. Why should I distance myself from what I do and what I could do?<\/p>\n<p>Let the Big Bang of every action we take explode on my own consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>I did. We did. We do.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty Justin Simply did not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is always moving, always doing. That&#8217;s the nature of it, small or large there is humming and forward motion. I often overlook all the things that are happening when I feel frustrated or bored. I get frustrated and bored &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2015\/07\/pretty-justin-simply\/\">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-3778","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\/3778","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=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6535,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/6535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}