{"id":1568,"date":"2013-09-18T15:35:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2013-09-18T15:34:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T22:34:33","slug":"inside-michelles-brain-episode-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=1568","title":{"rendered":"Inside Michelle’s Brain, episode 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I see this tweet, and I think: wouldn’t it simplify things if we could just die tomorrow? Then we wouldn’t need to worry about studying at all. Or planning. <\/p>\n

Well. <\/p>\n

Yeah. <\/p>\n

That is true. I’d be much less concerned about what time kickoff is for the Wazzu game, for instance, if I was dead. <\/p>\n

Simple. Yep. <\/p>\n

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So I see this tweet, and I think: wouldn’t it simplify things if we could just die tomorrow? Then we wouldn’t need to worry about studying at all. Or planning. Well. Yeah. That is true. I’d be much less concerned about what time kickoff is for the Wazzu game, for instance, if I was dead. … Continue reading Inside Michelle’s Brain, episode 6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hmmm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130918-151450.jpg?fit=640%2C1136&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-pi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10886,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10886","url_meta":{"origin":1568,"position":0},"title":"My own personal Jesus","author":"Michelle","date":"January 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This post reinforced something I have thought about for a long time.\u00a0 Many American Christians seem to imagine a Jesus who is open carrying a Glock, wearing an NRA badge on one lapel and an American flag on the other while checking his investment portfolio on his iPhone at the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Random thoughts"","block_context":{"text":"Random thoughts","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?cat=20"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11096,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=11096","url_meta":{"origin":1568,"position":1},"title":"Unsteady as she goes","author":"Michelle","date":"February 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. 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