{"id":28,"date":"2013-02-04T21:10:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T03:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phototropia.org\/?p=28"},"modified":"2013-02-04T21:11:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T03:11:11","slug":"so-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phototropia.org\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"So easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An acquaintance recently posted a quote (in the form of a dressed-up picture, of course), from someone named &#8220;Brian Tracy&#8221;, with whom I&#8217;m not familiar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete other tasks.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously? To say nothing of the lack of eloquence in the quote itself (hardly deserving of such a decorated presentation), does anyone really think it&#8217;s so simple? Oh &#8230; just &#8220;deal&#8221; with it, he says. Does it really need to be said, that in many cases &#8220;whatever is causing the greatest emotional distress&#8221; is a chronic or intractable situation?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what an inspiring idea. I hadn&#8217;t thought of that. I&#8217;ll just &#8220;deal with it&#8221;, and this whole lifelong problem will be solved, and I can move onto the next thing. Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>From my perspective, whoever finds resonance in this directive has lived a very sheltered or privileged life, free of serious emotional turmoil rooted in significant, challenging life problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An acquaintance recently posted a quote (in the form of a dressed-up picture, of course), from someone named &#8220;Brian Tracy&#8221;, with whom I&#8217;m not familiar: &#8220;Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete other tasks.&#8221; Seriously? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phototropia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phototropia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phototropia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phototropia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phototropia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phototropia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/phototropia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phototropia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phototropia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phototropia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}