{"id":802,"date":"2021-09-06T15:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T23:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2021-09-06T16:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T00:54:16","slug":"start-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/start-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What we could have, should have, or would have done\u2014these kinds of thoughts follow an if-then logic. But we\u2019re also drawn to alternative selves that hover on the edge of sense.&#8221; Joshua Rothman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/12\/21\/what-if-you-could-do-it-all-over\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What If You Could Do It All Over?<\/a> The New Yorker, December 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Take some time to read Joshua Rothman&#8217;s observations on live and the twists and turns that brought you where you are now. Any deviation could have resulted in a different outcome and a different life.<\/p>\n<p>Look back and consider your turning points. Write about one or more points and how your life today is a result of the turns you made years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What we could have, should have, or would have done\u2014these kinds of thoughts follow an if-then logic. But we\u2019re also drawn to alternative selves that hover on the edge of sense.&#8221; Joshua Rothman, What If You Could Do It All Over? The New Yorker, December 21, 2020. Take some time to read Joshua Rothman&#8217;s observations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}