{"id":357,"date":"2011-12-30T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T21:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2011-12-30T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T21:42:10","slug":"if-i-was-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"If I Was Smarter&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the olden days, when I was young\u2026.&#160; Well, now that I think of it, when I was middle-aged, too. Indeed, a couple of years ago I still was making mistakes that I don\u2019t make as often nowadays. Am I getting smarter? And if I would have been smarter, what would have come of it? I wouldn\u2019t have made some of those mistakes, but then, would I have really learned what I needed to learn? If you think about it, regrets and even what-if questions become imponderable: Too many variables at play, and too many consequences. If I had only\u2026 would I be writing this?&#160; Would you be reading this if anything had been a little different eighteen months ago? Ow! Brain cramp!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the olden days, when I was young\u2026.&#160; Well, now that I think of it, when I was middle-aged, too. Indeed, a couple of years ago I still was making mistakes that I don\u2019t make as often nowadays. Am I getting smarter? And if I would have been smarter, what would have come of it? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-whassup","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}