{"id":5019,"date":"2011-01-31T16:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T16:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2011-01-31T17:03:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:03:14","slug":"trying-too-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=5019","title":{"rendered":"Trying Too Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Trying%20Too%20Hard\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>There is so much going on in the world right now, yet I just can&#8217;t seem to get motivated to write about any of it. The more I try, the more locked down I get.<\/p>\n<p>Surly I <em>must<\/em> have some thoughts on Egypt!<\/p>\n<p>My only thought on Egypt are&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Good for them.<\/li>\n<li>And it&#8217;s funny that the same people who were for democratic uprisings in 2001 &#8211; 2010 (Limbaugh, Hannity, etc) are now going ape shiite and lamenting over Egypt. Apparently, overthrowing autocratic regimes and installing democracies in the Middle East is only a good thing when we are in a position to bully the process for an outcome more to our liking. The situation in Egypt is completely out of our control&#8230; As it should be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I got. I have more detailed thoughts and should be able to expand on that, but the motivation just is not there. So\u00a0 I&#8217;m taking a few days off from blogging&#8230;.\u00a0 Which can only mean I&#8217;ll be back tomorrow with a really long post!.<\/p>\n<p>PS. I will be back with two really long posts. But they were started a couple of weeks ago and just need some touch-up.\u00a0 So, in my mind, they aren&#8217;t &#8220;new&#8221; posts, just unfinished business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Trying%20Too%20Hard\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>There is so much going on in the world right now, yet I just can&#8217;t seem to get motivated to write about any of it. The more I try, the more locked down I get. Surly I must have some thoughts on Egypt! My only thought on Egypt are&#8230;. Good for them. And it&#8217;s funny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5021,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions\/5021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}