{"id":1637,"date":"2015-12-10T14:40:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2015-12-10T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:40:56","slug":"best-thing-ive-read-in-a-long-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1637","title":{"rendered":"Best thing I&#8217;ve read in a long while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theplayerstribune.com\/patrick-osullivan-nhl-abuse\/\">Patrick Sullivan on parenting, abuse, and doing what you love.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know when you actually get good at sports? When you\u2019re having fun and being creative. When you\u2019re being a kid. When you don\u2019t even realize you\u2019re getting better, that\u2019s when you\u2019re getting better. If you\u2019re not engaged in what you\u2019re doing, it\u2019s as helpful as taking the trash out. It\u2019s just another chore.<\/p>\n<p>Rewritten: <\/p>\n<p>You know when you actually get good at ______? When you\u2019re having fun and being creative. When you\u2019re being a kid. When you don\u2019t even realize you\u2019re getting better, that\u2019s when you\u2019re getting better. If you\u2019re not engaged in what you\u2019re doing, it\u2019s as helpful as taking the trash out. It\u2019s just another chore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Sullivan on parenting, abuse, and doing what you love. You know when you actually get good at sports? When you\u2019re having fun and being creative. When you\u2019re being a kid. When you don\u2019t even realize you\u2019re getting better, that\u2019s when you\u2019re getting better. If you\u2019re not engaged in what you\u2019re doing, it\u2019s as helpful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best thing I&#8217;ve read in a long while<\/span> <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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-qp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}