{"id":628,"date":"2007-07-16T10:28:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T14:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2007-07-17T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T10:51:00","slug":"like-a-dumont-warming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2007\/07\/like-a-dumont-warming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Dumont warming up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge doesn&#8217;t always come in obvious ways.  Good damn thing, too, or life would be a simple as television makes it seem with every problem, quandry, or situation resolved in 22:33 (or 43:44 for your &#8220;hour&#8221; show) and just what fun would that be?<\/p>\n<p>I have a problem with risk taking.  This isn&#8217;t much of a secret to anyone who actually knows me (hell, I&#8217;ve confessed it <a href=\"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=593\">within these pages<\/a>) but I&#8217;ve come to realize recently that avoiding failure in certain areas of my life by not trying is in reality a type of failure itself.  And it&#8217;s a type of failure with which I am no longer comfortable.  It may not seem much of a revelation but it surprised me when it appeared there on the page this morning.<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m not entirely sure that this revelation falls under the heading of &#8220;one happiness inducing thing&#8221; it pleases me somehow to include it with the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting to get a sense of wholeness<\/li>\n<li>That the workouts are showing progress (Angela Bassett arms here I come!)<\/li>\n<li>Craig Ferguson Saturday night at the Warner Theater for an hour&#8217;s worth of laughs<\/li>\n<li>Finally getting a good night&#8217;s sleep<\/li>\n<li>Realizing that the blueberry muffins not turning out quite the way I planned isn&#8217;t &#8220;failure&#8221; but &#8220;an excuse to bake more muffins&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge doesn&#8217;t always come in obvious ways. Good damn thing, too, or life would be a simple as television makes it seem with every problem, quandry, or situation resolved in 22:33 (or 43:44 for your &#8220;hour&#8221; show) and just what fun would that be? I have a problem with risk taking. This isn&#8217;t much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-one-happiness-inducing-thing","category-take-more-risks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}