{"id":5896,"date":"2023-12-04T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5896"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","slug":"equipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5896","title":{"rendered":"EQUIPPED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been staring at an empty screen &#8211; and doom scrolling on Twitter &#8211; for over an hour now.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, when I am sleepy or feeling run down, instead of writing a post, I waste a lot of time.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that, obviously, is not useful.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So tonight I am admitting defeat and simply posting a quote from C.S. Lewis that I have been chewing on. It seems to be in alignment with my recent concerns:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If Christianity should happen to be true, then it is quite impossible that those who know the truth and those who don&#8217;t should be equally well equipped for leading a good life. Knowledge of the facts must make a difference to one&#8217;s actions.&#8221; C.S. Lewis, &#8220;Man or Rabbit?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know a thing about &#8220;Man or Rabbit?&#8221;, but this quote has me curious.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been staring at an empty screen &#8211; and doom scrolling on Twitter &#8211; for over an hour now. Sometimes, when I am sleepy or feeling run down, instead of writing a post, I waste a lot of time. And that, obviously, is not useful. So tonight I am admitting defeat and simply posting [&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-5896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896","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=5896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5897,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896\/revisions\/5897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}