{"id":243,"date":"2017-08-06T22:23:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T03:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2025-02-14T21:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T03:58:36","slug":"being-lost-in-someone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Being Lost in Someone Else"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quote I ran across tonight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>You\u2019ll never be able to find yourself if you\u2019re lost in someone else.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the quote is true, and I&#8217;m betting that most of my friends know who I think I was &#8220;lost in&#8221;. The real trick is, though, that there&#8217;s a&nbsp;<em><strong>big distance<\/strong><\/em> between realizing that and knowing what to do about it. I had become so&nbsp;<em><strong>comfortable<\/strong><\/em> being &#8220;lost in&#8221; her, that my first instinct is to do it <em>again<\/em> with someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quote I ran across tonight: You\u2019ll never be able to find yourself if you\u2019re lost in someone else. I think the quote is true, and I&#8217;m betting that most of my friends know who I think I was &#8220;lost in&#8221;. The real trick is, though, that there&#8217;s a&nbsp;big distance between realizing that and [&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":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}