{"id":5971,"date":"2015-01-05T16:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T21:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2015-01-05T16:48:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T21:48:42","slug":"no-more-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2015\/01\/05\/no-more-junk\/","title":{"rendered":"No more junk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI&#8217;m not one for New Year&#8217;s Resolutions normally, finding them a waste of time, but I do want to change some things this year. Basically, I want to free myself of junk. And I&#8217;m not just talking about junk food here, though gru knows I could stand cutting down a lot on it, but junk consumption in general. In these past few years I feel like I&#8217;ve wasted too much time on things that don&#8217;t matter, aren&#8217;t worth it, or even actively harmful. I&#8217;m talking about.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>NO more junk tv<\/strong>. So much time wasted with crappy Discovery &#8220;documentaries&#8221; about awful people fighting over the scraps of other people&#8217;s failures, mildly amusing quiz shows and talking head football shows. Meanwhile my movie watching dropped almost to zero because I had &#8220;no time&#8221; for them, then spent twice as long watching crap on television. I need to stop that and watch something good instead.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>NO more online junk<\/strong>. The internet is of course the ultimate quick junk fix and I need to stop falling for Upworthyesque shit or tvtropes rabbit trails. I need to let go a bit more and not hit up more sites when there&#8217;s nothing interesting to read or see. I certainly don&#8217;t need to keep watching 40 minute long videos of other people playing games when I could be playing myself. Which brings me to.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>NO more junk gaming<\/strong>. For fuck&#8217;s sake, I had to make a spreadsheet to keep track of all the games I&#8217;ve already bought in the two years I&#8217;ve finally had a modern(ish) pc, yet I keep buying and not playing them? Meanwhile Football Manager shows ridic numbers of hours spent on it, in &#8220;just one more turn&#8221; type of button pushing pellot drop gaming. I like the game, but I need to let go of it a bit more when I&#8217;m just playing it to get the season done and over with.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>NO more junk blogging<\/strong>. Less of the obsession to get posts out daily or regularly when I have nothing to say, more time spent on writing them. &#8216;Nuff said.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nFinally, <strong>NO more junk reading<\/strong>. Not that I necessarily regret the books I read last year, but there have been times in the past two-three years where all I could stomach reading was Mass Effect fanfiction and shitty mil-sf. That needs to change.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\nBasically, I want to engage more rather than mindlessly consume what&#8217;s put in front of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one for New Year&#8217;s Resolutions normally, finding them a waste of time, but I do want to change some things this year. Basically, I want to free myself of junk. And I&#8217;m not just talking about junk food here, though gru knows I could stand cutting down a lot on it, but junk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5974,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions\/5974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}