{"id":3663,"date":"2012-02-29T01:55:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T05:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2012-02-29T01:55:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T05:55:29","slug":"tuesday-night-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/02\/29\/tuesday-night-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night &#8211; structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man&#8230; What a long day in so many respects . Just back to my room at 12:40 am. I spent the day in a coaching workshop here in armonk. I got to spend Quality time with a bunch of young-ish IBM folks from all over the company as well as some more senior colleagues I&#8217;ve known for some time. The whole thing was run as a set of highly structured role playing interactions. My first reaction to structure is always negative . I generally  prefer to think, act and speak as I please&#8230; But things like this remind me just how much I sometimes <em>need<em> <\/em> structure to function in this world. I think I need the proverbial box to think outside of.<br \/>\n   It&#8217;s fun interacting with some of my more linear colleagues and learning to appreciate their styles (which I do) and getting them to tolerate mine ( which they sometimes do)<\/p>\n<p> The day was long and grueling. With bad news inserted in on several fronts . Several close friends are dealing with unexpected changes in their lives and  my heart goes out to them all<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an owl outside somewhere who who sounds kinda sad and tired like I do now<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it will seem better in the morning<\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite sam<br \/>\n-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man&#8230; What a long day in so many respects . Just back to my room at 12:40 am. I spent the day in a coaching workshop here in armonk. I got to spend Quality time with a bunch of young-ish IBM folks from all over the company as well as some more senior colleagues I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/02\/29\/tuesday-night-structure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday night &#8211; structure<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[425],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-structure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}