{"id":2309,"date":"2022-05-06T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2022-05-06T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:04:00","slug":"prime-yourself-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2022\/05\/06\/prime-yourself-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TigersAtBronxZoo1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TigersAtBronxZoo1-300x257.jpg?resize=300%2C257\" alt=\"TigersAtBronxZoo\" class=\"wp-image-174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TigersAtBronxZoo1.jpg?resize=300%2C257&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TigersAtBronxZoo1.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There needs to be two of you: you and &#8220;you prime.&#8221; The latter is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/doc\/1O88-heuristicdevice.html\">heuristic<\/a>&nbsp;entity brought into being by you for the purpose of protecting and orienting you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your &#8220;you prime&#8221; makes the hard decisions &#8211; saying no to friends, curtailing vampiric commitments, enforcing skeptical habits of mind, and keeping you safe &#8211; when you are, for any reason, disinclined to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This little bit of as-if &#8211; this guardian phantasm, this <em>editor<\/em> &#8211; is a nifty trick, I have found, and good mental hygiene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There needs to be two of you: you and &#8220;you prime.&#8221; The latter is an heuristic&nbsp;entity brought into being by you for the purpose of protecting and orienting you. Your &#8220;you prime&#8221; makes the hard decisions &#8211; saying no to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2022\/05\/06\/prime-yourself-2\/\">Continue reading <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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32,65,87],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-editing-2","tag-mental-hygiene","tag-repost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}