{"id":958,"date":"2009-03-20T10:48:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T14:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2009\/03\/20\/sufficient-warning\/"},"modified":"2009-03-31T08:04:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T12:04:55","slug":"sufficient-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/958","title":{"rendered":"Sufficient warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">March exercise&#8212;day twenty&#8212;<\/span> Today\u2019s Rotary program on disaster preparedness reinforced my awareness that replenishing the \u201ccrash bucket\u201d should not be postponed. What is the matter with me, that I would sit on such an obvious imperative? One must always be doing rather than avoiding. The point of the exercise is not the rigorous framework, which is a means to an end. The goal, I remind myself, is mindful accomplishment through the active cultivation of constructive habit. Procrastination is nonproductive and tied to fear. William Faulkner said that \u201cfear, like so many evil things, comes mainly out of idleness.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> A pile of tombstone shards like broken chalk <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span> sunken into the ground, perhaps a century beyond the last time one cared whose eternal rest was signified.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Tomorrow&#8212;<\/span> A journey to Yorkshire Estate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March exercise&#8212;day twenty&#8212; Today\u2019s Rotary program on disaster preparedness reinforced my awareness that replenishing the \u201ccrash bucket\u201d should not be postponed. What is the matter with me, that I would sit on such an obvious imperative? One must always be doing rather than avoiding. The point of the exercise is not the rigorous framework, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,18,44,34,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}