{"id":2218,"date":"2016-02-06T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2016-02-11T19:22:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T03:22:32","slug":"i-did-it-thy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2218","title":{"rendered":"I Did It Thy Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite songs to sing in the shower over the last few decades is the Frank Sinatra theme song, \u201cMy Way,\u201d (the words actually by Paul Anka); but about ten years ago in the shower Uncle Bud, my conscience, said to me, \u201cCome on, you didn\u2019t do it <em><strong>your<\/strong><\/em> way!\u201d \u201cWhaddaya mean?\u201d says I, challenging him. He listed ten occasions when he sorta pulled my butt out of the fire. \u201cOkay, so?\u201d \u201cWell, I just want you to notice that you by far did not do it your way. You did it our way.\u201d (He was referring to the committee of about 30 angels who coordinate my life.\u201d \u201cWell, hm, would you accept 17%?\u201d He shrugged, \u201cWhatever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About a year ago I had thought again and called him. He\u2019s always right there. I said, \u201cEr, seven percent?\u201d He shrugged, \u201cWhatever.\u201d But I could sorta-kinda see him smiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite songs to sing in the shower over the last few decades is the Frank Sinatra theme song, \u201cMy Way,\u201d (the words actually by Paul Anka); but about ten years ago in the shower Uncle Bud, my conscience, said to me, \u201cCome on, you didn\u2019t do it your way!\u201d \u201cWhaddaya mean?\u201d says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-papers","category-foolin","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}