{"id":311,"date":"2010-02-02T13:51:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2017-02-13T14:27:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:27:57","slug":"living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/BC_hours.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-312\" title=\"BC_hours\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/BC_hours.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/BC_hours.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/BC_hours-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided to own it! I always advise people to own their dreams, to own who they truly are &#8212; the part that makes them shine. But I&#8217;ve never done it myself because it&#8217;s so scary. What if I suck? What if I&#8217;m full of shit? What if I&#8217;m not worthy? What if it all crumbles and then is consumed by a flaming ball of shame?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ll give myself the advise I would give one of my best friends: Fuck all that negative shit that belittles and destroys! You can do it! You were meant to do it!<\/p>\n<p>Or I could take Steve Jobs advise, which is wonderful and much more eloquently put:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D1R-jKKp3NA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D1R-jKKp3NA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still scary to follow your dreams though. You just do it anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to own it! I always advise people to own their dreams, to own who they truly are &#8212; the part that makes them shine. But I&#8217;ve never done it myself because it&#8217;s so scary. What if I suck? What if I&#8217;m full of shit? What if I&#8217;m not worthy? What if it all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=311\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}