{"id":2016,"date":"2016-07-29T18:48:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T01:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2016-07-29T18:48:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T01:48:36","slug":"rush-hour-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Rush-hour in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150128.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150128.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2017\" \/><\/a>Just got off the phone with a child who was trying to visit with his dad while driving in rush-hour traffic. In Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, he had to drop the call. Some activities are mutually exclusive. To do one well you must stop doing the other.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always had trouble with that\u2014letting go of something (checking Facebook, blogging maybe) that is keeping me from another something that is more important\u2014like reading to a grandchild, listening (really listening) to a spouse or meditating on a Bible passage.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the reasons I retired. I had said yes to so many things so many times that I couldn\u2019t give any of them the attention they deserved.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge now is to keep from doing it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got off the phone with a child who was trying to visit with his dad while driving in rush-hour traffic. In Houston. Yep, he had to drop the call. Some activities are mutually exclusive. To do one well you must stop doing the other. I\u2019ve always had trouble with that\u2014letting go of something (checking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}