{"id":29,"date":"2004-02-16T19:05:34","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T19:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=29"},"modified":"2004-02-16T19:05:34","modified_gmt":"2004-02-16T19:05:34","slug":"what-should-i-do-with-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2004\/02\/16\/what-should-i-do-with-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"What should i do with my life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two quotes from Po Bronson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pobronson.com\/index_what_should_I_do_with_my_life.htm\">What Should I Do With My Life<\/a>. An annoyingly complacent piece of American self-help literature on the one hand, but on the other I&#8217;m a sucker for bite-sized wisdom&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Three guys laying bricks are asked why they&#8217;re doing it. The first guy says, &#8216;I&#8217;m doing it for the wages.&#8217; The second guy says, &#8216;I&#8217;m doing it to support my family&#8217;. The third guys says, &#8216;I&#8217;m helping to build a cathedral.&#8217;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8230;it is likely that we fall in love with people who bring out the part of ourselves that we&#8217;d like to see more of.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two quotes from Po Bronson&#8217;s What Should I Do With My Life. An annoyingly complacent piece of American self-help literature on the one hand, but on the other I&#8217;m a sucker for bite-sized wisdom&#8230; Three guys laying bricks are asked why they&#8217;re doing it. The first guy says, &#8216;I&#8217;m doing it for the wages.&#8217; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}