{"id":4073,"date":"2021-03-10T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:03","slug":"no-dragging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"NO DRAGGING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I said goodnight to Sarah Sunday night, the last night before our last week of classes before a full week of spring break, I found myself lamenting to her, &#8220;I sure don&#8217;t look forward to going to school tomorrow. This week is going to absolutely drag by.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since I&#8217;ve been thinking over the last few days about how I routinely exercise authority over my hands without even conscious thought, I decided this might make for a worthwhile experiment to see how exercising a little extra authority over my other thoughts might impact my day.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So yesterday morning, on my way to school, I vowed to banish the negative attitude and muster some extra energy. I decided that I wouldn&#8217;t look forward just to 3:00 pm on Friday. I told myself, instead, that something good was going to happen sometime this week &#8211; before Friday afternoon &#8211; and I could look forward each day to the possibility of that good thing being revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I haven&#8217;t found out what that good thing is yet, but I can guarantee the first two days of the week have been a lot more pleasant than I expected. 40% of the week has passed already!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I said goodnight to Sarah Sunday night, the last night before our last week of classes before a full week of spring break, I found myself lamenting to her, &#8220;I sure don&#8217;t look forward to going to school tomorrow. This week is going to absolutely drag by.&#8221;\u00a0 Since I&#8217;ve been thinking over the last [&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-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","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=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}