{"id":31359,"date":"2020-02-21T02:09:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T08:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31359"},"modified":"2020-02-21T02:09:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T08:09:16","slug":"briefly-as-i-grow-wiser-i-regret-more-of-what-i-said-in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31359","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: As I grow wiser, I regret more of what I said in the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/David-and-Olivia-2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31360\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/David-and-Olivia-2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/David-and-Olivia-2010.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/David-and-Olivia-2010-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I constantly run across articles I\u2019ve written at different times over the last nine years which I now wish I\u2019d never published. It\u2019s not always even a matter of disagreeing what what I wrote at the time. Sometimes I just wish I had been kinder in the way I approached something. Other times, it seems as though I wasted my time by writing about something that seems trivial. And yet other times, it\u2019s that I don\u2019t entirely agree with what I said then. I have the strange notion that everything I\u2019ve ever said should somehow reflect the person I am today. That\u2019s not possible, because I\u2019m not the same person I was five years ago or 10 years ago. I like to think I\u2019ve grown. So I guess I\u2019ll continue to cringe at some things I\u2019ve written. I hope I\u2019ll keep growing \u2014 enough that I\u2019ll cringe in 10 years at things I write or say today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I constantly run across articles I\u2019ve written at different times over the last nine years which I now wish I\u2019d never published. It\u2019s not always even a matter of disagreeing what what I wrote at the time. Sometimes I just wish I had been kinder in the way I approached something. Other times, it seems <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31359\" 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-31359","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-89N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31359","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=31359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31363,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31359\/revisions\/31363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}