{"id":3770,"date":"2010-03-09T06:15:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T11:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2010-03-09T06:15:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T11:15:02","slug":"3770","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/09\/3770\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See I see myself do this a lot. I read something that appeals to who I believe I am and I grab it like a Recovering Alcoholic grabbing his Johnny Walker. I believe I do this, and am probably not alone in doing this because in some ways we have a yearning to validate who we are at least or even only to ourselves. It is that we sometimes grab these things just to say to ourselves we were not wrong. I know this is not a rational way of living. I hope to change this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If this were the only case where I had this dispiriting result \u2026 perhaps I could treat it as an exception. But what I\u2019ve found is every time I did a study like this \u2026 there was nobody home in terms of really wanting to know the result.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johndcook.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/08\/edward-tufte-appointment\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheEndeavour+%28The+Endeavour%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">via Edward Tufte, Ron Howard, and government consulting<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See I see myself do this a lot. I read something that appeals to who I believe I am and I grab it like a Recovering Alcoholic grabbing his Johnny Walker. I believe I do this, and am probably not alone in doing this because in some ways we have a yearning to validate who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/09\/3770\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/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":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}