{"id":7001,"date":"2026-05-06T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=7001"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:00:15","slug":"what-does-it-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2026\/05\/what-does-it-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"what does it look like"},"content":{"rendered":"\u201cDo your best!\u201d<br \/><br \/>That very little sense to me. When I was young, it enraged me. If I set out to do a thing, it will get done. Like Yoda said, there is no try there is only do.<br \/><br \/>What does best even mean?<br \/><br \/>Grade inflation has rendered grade A into average. <br \/><br \/>Best friend has turned into BFF\u2014not just best friends but bust friend forever with the person who gave the Starbucks order as you that morning.<br \/><br \/>And I go hollow.<br \/><br \/>Best is the highest I can attain or be. And if best is so easy maybe I am not worth that much either.<br \/><br \/>It\u2019s a dream\u2014how high could I go?<br \/><br \/>Does best have boundaries? I don\u2019t reach for what I think is impossible.<br \/><br \/>It was inconceivable for humans to move faster than the speed of sound until Chuck Yeager did it.<br \/>And then they did it again. And then humans walked on the moon.<br \/><br \/>I don\u2019t want my best to be mediocre. What else is under that best?<br \/><br \/>Could I be better than best?<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo your best!\u201d That very little sense to me. When I was young, it enraged me. If I set out to do a thing, it will get done. Like Yoda said, there is no try there is only do. What &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2026\/05\/what-does-it-look-like\/\">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-7001","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\/7001","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=7001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7002,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions\/7002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}