{"id":34350,"date":"2021-06-14T01:39:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T06:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=34350"},"modified":"2021-06-14T01:39:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T06:39:04","slug":"briefly-comic-perfectly-captured-what-i-wrote-about-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=34350","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Comic perfectly captured what I wrote about this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Goal-is-to-be-loved.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34352\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Goal-is-to-be-loved.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Goal-is-to-be-loved.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Goal-is-to-be-loved-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wrote over the weekend about the <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=34317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">folly of making lists<\/a> of goals that you\u2019re never willing to actually pursue. The comic strip Pearls Before Swine \u2014 which I consider one of the most brilliant and insightful pieces of art today \u2014 ran something Monday morning that paired perfectly with that. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2021\/06\/14?ct=v&amp;cti=1964270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the complete strip here<\/a>.) Goals are great. Some of our goals are really worth chasing. But we need a sense of priorities \u2014 and if we don\u2019t have the love we need, all of our goals are useless, even if we achieve every one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote over the weekend about the folly of making lists of goals that you\u2019re never willing to actually pursue. The comic strip Pearls Before Swine \u2014 which I consider one of the most brilliant and insightful pieces of art today \u2014 ran something Monday morning that paired perfectly with that. (See the complete strip <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=34350\" 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-8W2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34350","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=34350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34355,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34350\/revisions\/34355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}