{"id":2948,"date":"2019-08-19T01:07:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2019-07-27T08:17:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T13:17:37","slug":"dont-try-this-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/08\/dont-try-this-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Try This at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I know what I&#8217;m doing. You don&#8217;t. I can have fun. You can&#8217;t.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a kid, I used to see wild stunts on television. They always prefaced them with, &#8220;Don&#8217;t try this at home.&#8221; Why not? Why could they do things, but I couldn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course they had years of this and that and expertise and equipment that I didn&#8217;t. It seemed, however, that they were having all the fun. They were experimenting. They were learning. They were growing. I was sitting on the floor staring up at a black and white TV doing nothing, going no where.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You need to learn a bunch of things before you learn this.&#8221; I think that is what they were telling me. But how would I learn if I didn&#8217;t try what they did on TV?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But you need to go slowly. This could hurt.&#8221; As if going to first grade at age 5 with a bunch of kids who were all bigger than me and none of whom I had ever met before wasn&#8217;t going to hurt\u2014a whole lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone else needs to proceed with caution. Everyone else needs to go slow. Everyone else needs to watch me for a long while before&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Really? Who decided that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I know what I&#8217;m doing. You don&#8217;t. I can have fun. You can&#8217;t. As a kid, I used to see wild stunts on television. They always prefaced them with, &#8220;Don&#8217;t try this at home.&#8221; Why not? Why could they do things, but I couldn&#8217;t? Of course they had years of this and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,90,92,20,279],"tags":[143,207,209,142,280],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-education","category-fear","category-learning","category-permission","tag-change","tag-education","tag-fear","tag-learning","tag-permission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2949,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}