{"id":1422,"date":"2020-01-01T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2020-01-11T13:38:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T18:38:54","slug":"laying-claim-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/01\/laying-claim-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Laying claim to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A promise is a way of laying claim to an uncertain future. It is a way of projecting oneself into the coming months, protecting a commitment that may be impossible to keep. It is also a means of guarding or binding one\u2019s identity\u2014the I in I promise.<\/p><cite>\u2014 John Kaag and Skye C. Cleary, Advice on New Year\u2019s Resolutions from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, theparisreview.org<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/22\/advice-new-years-resolutions-kierkegaard-nietzsche\/\">Advice on New Year\u2019s Resolutions from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A promise is a way of laying claim to an uncertain future. It is a way of projecting oneself into the coming months, protecting a commitment that may be impossible to keep. It is also a means of guarding or binding one\u2019s identity\u2014the I in I promise. \u2014 John Kaag and Skye C. Cleary, Advice &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/01\/laying-claim-to-the-future\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laying claim to the future&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}