{"id":4126,"date":"2024-05-13T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2024-04-13T07:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T12:22:37","slug":"where-i-come-from-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/05\/where-i-come-from-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I Come From, We\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It is easy to use my past as a reason for my behavior. It&#8217;s just an excuse. Put it and all other excuses behind and be here and now and better.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You have to understand&#8221; (when we hear those words, run and hide quickly)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I was in the Army<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I grew up in New England<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I never played baseball as a kid<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I always wrote a lot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I didn&#8217;t have a library in my town<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I was raised in a big family<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I was an only child<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I was part of an Irish\/Italian\/Cajun\/Latin\/Whatever community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could keep this list going for a while. I have a past that brought me to this place here and now. I act the way I do because of my past. You just have to understand that and not blame what I do on me. My problems were caused by something, someone, somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wrong. I am responsible for what I do here and now. Excusing myself because of something somewhere else at some other time is convenient. Like all excuses, it is just an excuse. Move on. Be here and now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips It is easy to use my past as a reason for my behavior. It&#8217;s just an excuse. Put it and all other excuses behind and be here and now and better. &#8220;You have to understand&#8221; (when we hear those words, run and hide quickly) I could keep this list going for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,51,70,63,363,367,316,281,20],"tags":[322,173,190,183,364,366,317,282,142],"class_list":["post-4126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-choose","category-excuses","category-expectations","category-growth","category-history","category-improvement","category-influence","category-learning","tag-accountability","tag-choose","tag-excuses","tag-expectations","tag-growth","tag-history","tag-improvement","tag-influence","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126","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=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4127,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}