{"id":2691,"date":"2022-10-08T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:48","slug":"ought-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2691","title":{"rendered":"OUGHT TO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technology issues tonight with my laptop are reminding me that I never regret taking a few minutes in the morning to write a rough draft of the day&#8217;s blogpost.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often regret waiting until the end of the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was able today to slip back into several routines without much thought. I ran the dogs and I made the bed, for instance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But getting some writing done early in the day has not reached the point of automaticity. It is not yet a habit. It remains an &#8220;ought to&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And without a firm decision to make early writing a part of my routine, it will remain sporadic.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it will produce regret whenever I fail to do what I ought.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a big gulf between habit and &#8220;ought&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology issues tonight with my laptop are reminding me that I never regret taking a few minutes in the morning to write a rough draft of the day&#8217;s blogpost.\u00a0 I often regret waiting until the end of the day.\u00a0 I was able today to slip back into several routines without much thought. I ran the [&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-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","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=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}