{"id":29036,"date":"2019-06-05T14:40:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T19:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29036"},"modified":"2019-06-05T14:40:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T19:40:50","slug":"briefly-so-you-think-youre-pretty-smart-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29036","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: So you think you\u2019re pretty smart, huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bathroom-skylight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29037\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bathroom-skylight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bathroom-skylight.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bathroom-skylight-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did something hilariously stupid a few minutes ago. I had just finished showing a house and was going through the place turning all the lights off when I became frustrated because I couldn\u2019t find the light switch to turn this remaining light off in a bathroom. After searching and fuming for at least three minutes about my inability to figure it out, I finally noticed that there was no light to turn off. That\u2019s a skylight in the ceiling instead. I felt pretty stupid, but I had a good laugh at my own expense. Sometimes, we\u2019re not nearly as bright as we think we are. Remember to laugh at yourself. It makes mistakes more bearable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did something hilariously stupid a few minutes ago. I had just finished showing a house and was going through the place turning all the lights off when I became frustrated because I couldn\u2019t find the light switch to turn this remaining light off in a bathroom. After searching and fuming for at least three <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29036\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7yk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29038,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29036\/revisions\/29038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}