{"id":1836,"date":"2012-05-28T08:49:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T12:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2012-05-28T08:49:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T12:49:41","slug":"a-burdensome-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1836","title":{"rendered":"A burdensome madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve pretty much lost it. \u00a0My mind, I mean. \u00a0It&#8217;s not such a bad thing to have happen, so long \u00a0as it&#8217;s temporary, so long as no one gets hurt. \u00a0I came damn close to that line on Friday morning, even crossed it a little. \u00a0It was almost &#8220;bye-bye, job.&#8221; \u00a0But I&#8217;m getting reeled in now, with lots of help. \u00a0This long weekend is well-timed, even with the &#8220;insane&#8221; (pun intended) amount of writing I have to do. \u00a0There are certain things I can live with, certain fears, both rational and otherwise, I can tolerate.<\/p>\n<p>At work, I&#8217;m going to bite the bullet and endure several weeks of &#8220;unpleasantness&#8221; in the name of a much needed quality push. \u00a0I&#8217;m seriously considering whether I can leverage my suffering in an attempt to indulge <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1826\">thoughts<\/a> that came up (perhaps serendipitously) earlier in the week. \u00a0Maybe I can make some of those flights-of-fancy into reality. \u00a0Alternatively, it could make a bad situation worse &#8211; trying to force people to do something they don&#8217;t want to do while I&#8217;m being forced to undergo my own (heretofore referenced, though not fully described) unpleasant process of transition. \u00a0Well, I&#8217;m getting to a stage where I don&#8217;t really care. \u00a0If my place in this smal law practice is going to disintigrate, I&#8217;d prefer it to happen while I fight to do better and fight for what I want. \u00a0So, that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s going to be.<\/p>\n<p>And also, I&#8217;m going to start listening to Uriah Heep. \u00a0That should help as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve pretty much lost it. \u00a0My mind, I mean. \u00a0It&#8217;s not such a bad thing to have happen, so long \u00a0as it&#8217;s temporary, so long as no one gets hurt. \u00a0I came damn close to that line on Friday morning, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1836\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[1402,1404,1403,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}