{"id":521,"date":"2017-06-26T13:50:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T17:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2017-06-26T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T18:29:23","slug":"wisdom-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wisdom-day-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom: Day Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-30.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-523\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-30.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of you may have noticed a lag between this and my last Wisdom blog (Day One 5\/22\/17). I\u2019ve had a lot to say \u00a0about \u00a0our recent elections and their fallout . We are at political DefCon Alpha. Current events get in the way of more general thoughts about life. \u00a0As a student of history, a world traveler, a user of the Oxford comma, and a person of faith I \u00a0have a whole lot to say about our Orwellian present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-32.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-525\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-32.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But today let&#8217;s veer off the political track for a moment and let me tell you about a practice I am new at and love: laughing at myself.<\/p>\n<p>One of my character flaws is that I take myself seriously. Those who love me say \u00a0I take myself <em>too<\/em> seriously. To be perfectly honest, sometimes I do. Okay, \u00a0lots of times. That being said, when I laugh at myself something happens. My perspective shifts and I experience a sharp drop of stress. It&#8217;s a two for one special: \u00a0freedom from self-judgment and openness to self-acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>So the entirety of my wisdom for today is this: learn to laugh at yourself &#8211; your foibles, your missteps, your idiocy &#8211; and don\u2019t wait until you are my age to do it. Life will be so much easier to navigate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-31.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-524\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-31.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may have noticed a lag between this and my last Wisdom blog (Day One 5\/22\/17). I\u2019ve had a lot to say \u00a0about \u00a0our recent elections and their fallout . We are at political DefCon Alpha. Current events get in the way of more general thoughts about life. \u00a0As a student of history, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wisdom-day-two\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wisdom: Day Two<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,8,25,19,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}