{"id":349,"date":"2022-01-26T11:12:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2022-01-26T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:12:52","slug":"hey-ive-only-responded-to-a-work-message-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/hey-ive-only-responded-to-a-work-message-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, I&#8217;ve only responded to a work message once."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;so far, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a day off for me, and I have the house to myself. This is nice, though in a reversal of the usual I find myself rather wishing I could&#8230;you know&#8230;go anywhere or do much of anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the province is still fairly closed-up, and the weather is pretty miserable (-13, feeling like -19, with the sidewalks still questionably navigable thanks to last week&#8217;s massive snow-dump.) Ordinarily, this would be fine. No problem; I&#8217;ve got lots of little things I can do around the house, we&#8217;ve got all the groceries we might need and everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But good lord it would be nice to go out and do&#8230;something. Visit a friend, have a coffee, go and eat a cheeseburger, anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#firstworldproblems, I know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday I listened to the latest of that series I&#8217;ve been following on emotions over at the Happiness Lab. This time, it&#8217;s about anger, and how to do it better: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-megaphone wp-block-embed-megaphone\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"How to be Angry Better\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=HSW4389476683&#038;light=true#?secret=IRfezSdy0h\" data-secret=\"IRfezSdy0h\" width=\"670\" height=\"200\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>This SHOULD be an embedded player. Hopefully. If that&#8217;s not working, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happinesslab.fm\/2022-new-year-mini-season\/how-to-be-angry-better\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">try this link to have a listen<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My favorite takeaways from this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Anger begins in the body.<\/li><li>Anger exists to motivate you to seek change.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, when I feel angry, the question needs to be: What do I feel needs to change right now? That makes anger actionable, turns it into something I can do something about, at least hypothetically. I like this idea, at least in terms of making things more clear, though it may not be quite so easy to think of a way to <strong>execute <\/strong>the change in question once I&#8217;ve thought of what needs changing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;so far, anyway. It&#8217;s a day off for me, and I have the house to myself. This is nice, though in a reversal of the usual I find myself rather wishing I could&#8230;you know&#8230;go anywhere or do much of anything. But the province is still fairly closed-up, and the weather is pretty miserable (-13, feeling &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/hey-ive-only-responded-to-a-work-message-once\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;ve only responded to a work message once.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slice-of-life","tag-introspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}