{"id":872,"date":"2016-11-06T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=872"},"modified":"2016-12-11T17:47:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T17:47:52","slug":"i-dont-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"I (don&#8217;t) Wish&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been asked several times lately (we have really in-depth, stimulating conversations after golf) if there was something I never did but wish I had or if I\u2019d like to change things I\u2019ve done, or regret things\u2026 anyhow you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>There have been times that I might have listed my regrets and \u201cshould haves.\u201d But I don\u2019t wish that I had or hadn\u2019t done any of the things I did because that&#8217;s what makes me who I am. I\u2019ve certainly made plenty of bad mistakes and wrong decisions, but that\u2019s called experience. If I hadn\u2019t done those things I wouldn\u2019t have learned from them.<\/p>\n<p>I like my life right now \u2014 it\u2019s not perfect, but it never will be. That\u2019s not what life is all about. So no regrets for me \u2014 only gratitude for what those lessons taught me.<\/p>\n<p>Well, ok, I suppose I do have one regret\u2026 I wish I\u2019d bought 100 shares of Apple stock instead of all those iPhones, iPads, etc.<br \/>\n\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been asked several times lately (we have really in-depth, stimulating conversations after golf) if there was something I never did but wish I had or if I\u2019d like to change things I\u2019ve done, or regret things\u2026 anyhow you get &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=872\">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\/872"}],"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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}