{"id":6767,"date":"2025-08-20T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=6767"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:24:47","slug":"what-do-i-want-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2025\/08\/what-do-i-want-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What do I want?"},"content":{"rendered":"The chicken meat has frozen itself around the bars of the basket in the freezer. Earlier, I\u2019d jammed a butter knife into the packages to free them. I got a few, and some were too stubborn to extract.<br \/><br \/>And today I have no chicken for dinner. What will I do? I\u2019m hungry!<br \/><br \/>My plan is foiled. I had purchased chicken to solve this problem, but this best laid  plan came to naught. <br \/><br \/>What choices am I left with?<br \/><br \/>Freedom of choice is best served with time. When I have time I have more choices. Since I burned up my time by giving up on freeing the chicken from the cage in the freezer, I have to come up with another choice.<br \/><br \/>I have money. I have a car. I could go buy some food.<br \/><br \/>I remember other hungry times when I had a car but no money. That was a time to look in the cupboard.<br \/><br \/>What is in my cupboard? I had been looking for meat, because I wanted protein. What are the other options?<br \/><br \/>Time and resources increase the choices. Resources are the result of work done previously, often by me. Did I stock my cupboard previously? Did I save money from a paycheck I earned before?<br \/><br \/>Some resources arrive as gifts. When I play monopoly, I get 200 dollars after I pass GO. I have the gift of 24 hours each day I live. I can also have the resources that were given to me by the family I was born in. Do they give me food that they worked for?<br \/><br \/>My choices are dependent on my location. What is common here and what is rare and precious? It could be easy to get water near a lake, but it is rare in the desert. In the same way, I could have natural inclinations that are valuable. I am a person who writes, that could be rare and valuable. I also could stockpile skills that people need, to trade for<br \/><br \/>Chicken<br \/><br \/>I have an embarrassment of riches in my choices right now. I\u2019m stuck in a rut. As you can tell, I have chicken for dinner a lot. Is that the choice I really want?<br \/><br \/>I know I could change it. I could start choosing to eat no meat at all. Or NOTHING but meat. Big choices is where big changes start. What do I want?<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chicken meat has frozen itself around the bars of the basket in the freezer. Earlier, I\u2019d jammed a butter knife into the packages to free them. I got a few, and some were too stubborn to extract. And today &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2025\/08\/what-do-i-want-2\/\">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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6767","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\/6767","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=6767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6768,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions\/6768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}