{"id":111,"date":"2012-10-04T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/?p=111"},"modified":"2019-06-09T06:28:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T13:28:20","slug":"unfounded-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/unfounded-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfounded Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve noticed that there are certain very smart people who live their lives based on totally unfounded fears.\u00a0\u00a0These people want to make sure that everyone is as fearful as they are and they are very good at coming up with real sounding threats and scaring the daylights out of you.\u00a0\u00a0I choose to ignore them.\u00a0\u00a0Just like ghosts, if I don\u2019t believe in them they can\u2019t hurt me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Twain\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Twain<\/a>\u00a0once said, \u201cI\u2019ve suffered a great many catastrophes in my life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Most of them never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_harvey\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Harvey<\/a> said, \u201cI\u2019ve never seen a monument to a pessimist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michel De Saint-Pierre said, \u201cAn optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must a pessimist always run to blow it out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time I think people\u2019s lives are ruined more by the fear of a particular event than they would be if the event actually occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s dwell on happy positive thoughts and shape the world with optimism.\u00a0\u00a0If something bad happens we are going to be screwed but let\u2019s not think so much about it that our whole live are wasted in worry.<\/p>\n<p>Take Chances and enjoy life . . . no matter what happens<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Love you brother,<\/p>\n<p>Will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve noticed that there are certain very smart people who live their lives based on totally unfounded fears.\u00a0\u00a0These people want to make sure that everyone is as fearful as they are and they are very good at coming up with &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/unfounded-fears\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/embow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}