{"id":156,"date":"2015-07-18T18:39:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T23:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:37:20","slug":"the-anticlimax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"The anticlimax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you read my <a href=\"\/?p=147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">previous post<\/a> here, you might be waiting on the &#8220;big reveal&#8221; that I strongly alluded to. I&#8217;m sorry, but I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s not going to happen. Drop me an email if you&#8217;re curious, and if I know you, I&#8217;ll almost certainly\u00a0share what I was talking about. The info isn&#8217;t exactly\u00a0a secret, anyway, and I think anybody can find it if they dig enough. However, I&#8217;ve decided that putting up\u00a0multiple signs (bearing my name) <em>pointing<\/em> to it isn&#8217;t the best idea. I don&#8217;t know of\u00a0any\u00a0<em>specific<\/em>\u00a0reasons to be worried, but\u00a0there&#8217;s no need to &#8220;tempt fate&#8221; (especially given how many places I syndicate this web log). \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At any rate, my self-confidence is now working well enough (and&nbsp;<em>regularly<\/em> enough) that I&#8217;m realizing more often that my choices are just that: <em>mine<\/em>. As I told a friend recently, I need to start&nbsp;<em>owning<\/em> my choices (instead of&nbsp;<em>depending<\/em> on the validation of others&#8230; though, it&#8217;s fun to see it when it happens *grin*).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read my previous post here, you might be waiting on the &#8220;big reveal&#8221; that I strongly alluded to. I&#8217;m sorry, but I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s not going to happen. Drop me an email if you&#8217;re curious, and if I know you, I&#8217;ll almost certainly\u00a0share what I was talking about. The info isn&#8217;t exactly\u00a0a secret, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,8,12],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-deep-thoughts","tag-depression","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}