{"id":16503,"date":"2011-09-10T16:22:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T20:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=16503"},"modified":"2011-09-10T16:22:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T20:22:44","slug":"the-universe-gives-me-lots-of-opportunity-to-work-on-my-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-universe-gives-me-lots-of-opportunity-to-work-on-my-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Universe gives me lots of opportunity to work on my stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the power of suggestion. I posted on Facebook at 3:00pm &#8220;<em>I would love one bite of mince pie. If any of my local pals are making one, save me a slice<\/em>.&#8221; \u00a0Then I went on to do other work and came back an hour later and found the post again. \u00a0I forgot I made it an hour ago, and forgot about mince pie. I was planning my dinner salad. Then I saw the post and now I want mince pie again. \u00a0\u00a0This is how the Universe works. \u00a0It gives me the opportunity to work on controlling myself. \u00a0Not by taking away the temptation, but by making it come up again and again so I can try responding to it a little differently each time until I find something that works.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-universe-gives-me-lots-of-opportunity-to-work-on-my-stuff\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=The Universe gives me lots of opportunity to work on my stuff&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-universe-gives-me-lots-of-opportunity-to-work-on-my-stuff\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-universe-gives-me-lots-of-opportunity-to-work-on-my-stuff\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-universe-gives-me-lots-of-opportunity-to-work-on-my-stuff\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=The%20Universe%20gives%20me%20lots%20of%20opportunity%20to%20work%20on%20my%20stuff&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-universe-gives-me-lots-of-opportunity-to-work-on-my-stuff\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the power of suggestion. I posted on Facebook at 3:00pm &#8220;I would love one bite of mince pie. If any of my local pals are making one, save me a slice.&#8221; \u00a0Then I went on to do other work and came back an hour later and found the post again. \u00a0I forgot I made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16594,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16503\/revisions\/16594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}