{"id":3647,"date":"2023-06-16T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2023-06-16T19:09:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T19:09:09","slug":"only-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"Only Two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I played golf yesterday and afterwards we stopped for a beer and to discuss world changing things that needed our attention. I\u2019m not sure why, but for some reason we got onto the subject of worry. It basically involved talk about a couple of people we both know that always seem to worry about the wrong \u2014 or at least unimportant \u2014 things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It reminded me of a \u201cstory\u201d I once heard about worrying. It goes something like this\u2026<br>There are only two things to worry about \u2014 either you\u2019re healthy or you\u2019re sick. If you\u2019re healthy, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you\u2019re sick, there are only two things to worry about \u2014 either you will get well, or you will die. If you get well, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you die, there are only two things to worry about \u2014 either you will go to heaven or to hell. If you go to heaven, then there is nothing to worry about. And if you go to hell, you\u2019ll be so darn busy shaking hands with your friends you won\u2019t have time to worry.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all worry, but I\u2019ve heard it said that worry is like a rocking chair \u2014 it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere\u2026.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played golf yesterday and afterwards we stopped for a beer and to discuss world changing things that needed our attention. I\u2019m not sure why, but for some reason we got onto the subject of worry. It basically involved talk &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3647\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}