{"id":813,"date":"2012-10-14T00:45:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T22:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2012-10-14T00:45:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T22:45:02","slug":"do-your-work-then-step-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/14\/do-your-work-then-step-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Your Work, Then Step Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Fill your bowl to the brim<br \/>\nand it will spill.<br \/>\nKeep sharpening your knife<br \/>\nand it will blunt.<br \/>\nChase after money and security<br \/>\nand your heart will never unclench.<br \/>\nCare about people&#8217;s approval<br \/>\nand you will be their prisoner.<\/p>\n<p>Do your work, then step back.<br \/>\nThe only path to serenity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Lao-Tzu, Section 9 from <a href=\"http:\/\/academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu\/core9\/phalsall\/texts\/taote-v3.html#9\">Tao Te Ching<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people&#8217;s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. &mdash;Lao-Tzu, Section 9 from Tao [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[617,619,618],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-prerequisites-for-stepping-back","tag-pursuit-of-happiness","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->