{"id":10741,"date":"2023-09-30T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10741"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","slug":"undone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10741","title":{"rendered":"UNDONE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wanted to finish the final assignment of my doctorate program, a 10 page paper on integrating preaching with the other elements of a worship service.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My intention was to turn in my paper by midnight, no matter how lame it might be.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But a second option kept distracting me &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe I could just skip the paper altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did the math. Currently I have a high A, so even with a big, fat, complete ZERO on the paper, I wouldn&#8217;t end the semester with a grade lower than a B-.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tempting &#8211; Over and over again. All day long.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in the end, neither my pride nor my sense of obligation would allow me to take Option B-.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides, I had already invested time in research.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, the drag on my focus throughout the day left me with an unfinished paper at midnight.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow morning I WILL finish this paper. No turning back.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to finish the final assignment of my doctorate program, a 10 page paper on integrating preaching with the other elements of a worship service. My intention was to turn in my paper by midnight, no matter how lame it might be. But a second option kept distracting me &#8230; Maybe I could just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10742,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741\/revisions\/10742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}