{"id":376,"date":"2009-12-31T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T13:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2009-12-31T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:26:03","slug":"veni-vidi-vici","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/veni-vidi-vici\/","title":{"rendered":"Veni, Vidi, Vici"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with my ability to generate copious amounts of ear wax, I inherited from my father a propensity to cook up some gourmet negativity and then just sit and stew in it until it turns cold and gives me goosebumps.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard for a long time that a good counter to negative thoughts is to feed yourself positive ones. That&#8217;s my plan for the new year.<\/p>\n<p>AND, at the same time, I don&#8217;t think I can look at myself in a mirror and say things like, &#8220;I say YES to life!&#8221; and &#8220;I am my own unique self&#8212;special, creative, and wonderful!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those are for people who think small.\u00a0 I&#8217;m coming up with some affirmations of my own:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am glorious to behold.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m better than everyone else at most things and equally good as everyone else at the remaining few things.<\/li>\n<li>HelLO, Sex Monster!<\/li>\n<li>The fruit of my womb will be the next Messiah.<\/li>\n<li>I will win the lottery without even buying a fucking ticket.\u00a0 That&#8217;s how badly wealth wants to be mine.<\/li>\n<li>Tim Riggins&#8217; heart flutters at the sound of my name.<\/li>\n<li>My spoken and written words enlighten, entertain, and edify all audiences.\u00a0 And cure some diseases.<\/li>\n<li>My abs should be bronzed.<\/li>\n<li>Even hard-core Christians covet all that junk in my trunk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please add your own in the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with my ability to generate copious amounts of ear wax, I inherited from my father a propensity to cook up some gourmet negativity and then just sit and stew in it until it turns cold and gives me goosebumps.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard for a long time that a good counter to negative thoughts is to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/veni-vidi-vici\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veni, Vidi, Vici<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}