{"id":138,"date":"2003-07-03T15:58:44","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T15:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parnes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2003\/07\/03\/the_art_of_waiting\/"},"modified":"2003-07-03T15:58:44","modified_gmt":"2003-07-03T15:58:44","slug":"the_art_of_waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/07\/03\/the_art_of_waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting, one can wait for many things. The worst type of waiting is when you don&#8217;t know when it is going to happen. Soon? Right now? Tonight? Tomorrow? When? I am currently waiting for a phone call that I am anxious to receive. I have already been waiting for two almost two days and about an hour ago I actually got a response that I would receive the important phone call tonight. Which I guess means sometime between 19:00 and 22:00.<br \/>\nThere is a swedish saying that translated says, &#8220;If you are waiting for something good, you are never waiting too long.&#8221; Well, what if you don&#8217;t know what you are going to get then? I am a rather goal oriented person so even if an answer is negative I think it is better to get it as soon as possible instead of waiting forever. Sort of, put the horse out of its misery. Well, at least I know that am going to get the call tonight.<br \/>\nAnd I need new flowers on the table as well. They look a bit &#8220;tired&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting, one can wait for many things. The worst type of waiting is when you don&#8217;t know when it is going to happen. Soon? Right now? Tonight? Tomorrow? When? I am currently waiting for a phone call that I am anxious to receive. I have already been waiting for two almost two days and about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/07\/03\/the_art_of_waiting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Art of Waiting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drpeppar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}