{"id":4374,"date":"2015-03-25T02:04:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T07:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2015-03-25T02:04:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T07:04:52","slug":"on-exhaustion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/on-exhaustion\/","title":{"rendered":"On Exhaustion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many people are tired, it isn&#8217;t just us.<\/p>\n<p>I think that when we&#8217;re tired our normal defenses go down.\u00a0 Some of those defenses are against ourself, and serve to keep our emotions under control. I am yet to decide if the emotional control we constantly exert on our feelings is a good thing. Prevailing common wisdom seems to be that it isn&#8217;t, but I don&#8217;t think I agree. Those checks to our feelings are there for a reason, and that reason is probably to protect us, which is why we instinctively think of them as our defenses.<\/p>\n<p>Our instincts are our inner voice of truth.\u00a0\u00a0 We should listen to that quiet little voice, perhaps especially when it urges us to bite our tongue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many people are tired, it isn&#8217;t just us. I think that when we&#8217;re tired our normal defenses go down.\u00a0 Some of those defenses are against ourself, and serve to keep our emotions under control. I am yet to decide if the emotional control we constantly exert on our feelings is a good thing. Prevailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}