{"id":365,"date":"2024-08-12T18:47:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T22:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickitysix.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2024-08-12T18:47:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T22:47:56","slug":"shut-up-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"shut up brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>overthinking is annoying. it&#8217;s frustrating. it&#8217;s even debilitating at times. it ruins things. it sucks the life out of simple pleasures. it&#8217;s an unnecessary distraction. no, it&#8217;s unnecessary, full stop. it sabotages.  it&#8217;s contagious.  it causes problems where there are none. it invents excuses and fosters procrastination. it&#8217;s bullshit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and for what?  to save my poor little heart from some imaginary injury that will likely never happen?  to protect me from some unforeseen problem that i am already well equipped to face?  to help me be prepared for a million possible outcomes which are impossible to predict with any kind of accuracy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i don&#8217;t need, nor do i want this.  so, shut up brain, you&#8217;re being a bit of a dick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>overthinking is annoying. it&#8217;s frustrating. it&#8217;s even debilitating at times. it ruins things. it sucks the life out of simple pleasures. it&#8217;s an unnecessary distraction. no, it&#8217;s unnecessary, full stop. it sabotages. it&#8217;s contagious. it causes problems where there are none. it invents excuses and fosters procrastination. it&#8217;s bullshit. and for what? to save my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=365\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">shut up brain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}