{"id":5609,"date":"2013-02-04T15:23:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T23:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2013-02-04T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T00:24:23","slug":"monday-night-ode-off-madly-in-all-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/02\/04\/monday-night-ode-off-madly-in-all-directions\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211; rode off madly in all directions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to work today after 3 days of being under the weather. I think it was my bodies way of telling me to slow down. I had a really full day at work.. Im working on some interesting and complicated stuff right now&#8230; .. Or at least its complicated for me..  I love tough problems&#8230; The challenge for me  My as always, is knowing where to focus first and  where to focus most.<br \/>\n   I took a break at lunch time to have lunch  with my friend and mentor Chris. I always love talking to him.. We have similar world view, similar interests.. Even similar reading tastes&#8230; The difference is,  he&#8217;s supremely organized and i know that I&#8217;m not.. He often teases me.. Constructively about  that&#8230;    He told me about a favorite story he remembers from his youth. It was from the Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock . Leacock wrote a story called  &#8220;Gertrude the Governess&#8221;.   In that the protagonist lord Ronald  is known for his boundless, but unfocussed energy. In one line that chris said was often cited in his family : <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.<\/p>\n<p>Tats was i was thinking as i ran off from our lunch.. Lates as always&#8230;<br \/>\nSigh&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite sam<br \/>\n-me<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Posted using BlogPress from my iPad<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Cochran%20Rd,Richmond,United%20States%4044.381717%2C-72.938532&#038;z=10'>Cochran Rd,Richmond,United States<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to work today after 3 days of being under the weather. I think it was my bodies way of telling me to slow down. I had a really full day at work.. Im working on some interesting and complicated stuff right now&#8230; .. Or at least its complicated for me.. I love tough problems&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/02\/04\/monday-night-ode-off-madly-in-all-directions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday night &#8211; rode off madly in all directions<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-5609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609","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=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}