{"id":642,"date":"2009-08-10T18:45:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T02:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=642"},"modified":"2009-08-10T18:45:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T02:45:44","slug":"in-the-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2009\/08\/10\/in-the-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"in the hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s funny how much cozier, and consequently happier I feel when I put up my hood. small things.<\/p>\n<p>somewhere I recently said that I may be better at being willing to communicate and not so great at actually communicating. Upon the umpteenth thought, I&#8217;m still pretty confident in my ability to communicate. When I look back to that time, and recall how terrible I felt about my ability to communicate, I remember coming to terms with it and finally realizing that I was playing against a stacked hand because they had a veil of being open and sensitive over concrete self defense mechanisms. That other time was similar.<\/p>\n<p>On that scale, I&#8217;m wholly in the other direction. Which isn&#8217;t really necessarily better, blaming yourself first. It&#8217;s still a challenge. I&#8217;m willing to believe that I leave less hearts broken and hurt along the way, and more willing to work through that which is life since my self image isn&#8217;t at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s funny how much cozier, and consequently happier I feel when I put up my hood. small things. somewhere I recently said that I may be better at being willing to communicate and not so great at actually communicating. Upon the umpteenth thought, I&#8217;m still pretty confident in my ability to communicate. When I look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}