{"id":160,"date":"2012-05-02T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2012-05-02T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T23:24:09","slug":"being-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Being yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good blog post fitting-in (or not) in high school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joethepeacock.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/thats-why-you-dont-have-any-friends.html\" title=\"link to That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends.\">&#8220;That&#8217;s why you don&#8217;t have any friends&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I gotta say that, having gone to brand-name universities and working with people who many consider the best in their disciplines, I&#8217;ve found that the most successful, the most brilliant, the people who are admired by everyone&#8211;nearly all of them were thought &#8216;weird&#8217; growing up.  They spent less energy trying to fit in, and more time being themselves and doing what they thought was best.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, read the story. It&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good blog post fitting-in (or not) in high school. &#8220;That&#8217;s why you don&#8217;t have any friends&#8221; Honestly, I gotta say that, having gone to brand-name universities and working with people who many consider the best in their disciplines, I&#8217;ve found &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/?p=160\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}