{"id":4805,"date":"2003-06-16T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-16T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/on-the-importance-of-having-goals-2\/"},"modified":"2003-06-16T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-16T19:22:00","slug":"on-the-importance-of-having-goals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/on-the-importance-of-having-goals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On the importance of having goals&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Me: &#8220;Do you have goals?<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;Wuh? Sure&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Have you outlived Kurt Cobain?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;What do you mean?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Are you older than Kurt Cobain when he died?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;No, he was like 27 or something.  Why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Last week it was pointed out to me that I&#8217;d outlived Jesus, so I figured I needed a new goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;Gawd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Exactly. Now I plan to outlive Sonny Bono.  It&#8217;s important to have goals, but you have to go with what works for you&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;&#8230;Kurt Cobain?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;It&#8217;s reasonable. No sense reaching for George Burns right away, that&#8217;s asking for trouble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He: &#8220;I&#8217;m going back to my computer and put this down on my monitor &#8212; outlive Kurt Cobain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;That&#8217;s right. Take it in small steps.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: &#8220;Do you have goals? He: &#8220;Wuh? Sure&#8230;&#8221; Me: &#8220;Have you outlived Kurt Cobain?&#8221; He: &#8220;What do you mean?&#8221; Me: &#8220;Are you older than Kurt Cobain when he died?&#8221; He: &#8220;No, he was like 27 or something. Why?&#8221; Me: &#8220;Last week it was pointed out to me that I&#8217;d outlived Jesus, so I figured I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}