{"id":4779,"date":"2015-12-04T09:14:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2015-12-04T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:14:58","slug":"the-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2015\/12\/04\/the-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day is a struggle&#8230; a different kind of struggle, sure, and varying wildly in intensity, true, but a struggle nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>Struggles against fear &amp; frustration, loss and abandonment, or even just struggling with getting out of bed or running out of coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it is these struggles that define us. Like the lines that define a picture &#8211; without struggles we are just empty space.<\/p>\n<p>Without these struggles, we are just consumption machines; mindlessly turning food into waste heat.<\/p>\n<p>We all struggle &#8211; each and every one of us. We face our own struggles, every day, but we face them together.<\/p>\n<p>So take heart, my friends, and struggle on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day is a struggle&#8230; a different kind of struggle, sure, and varying wildly in intensity, true, but a struggle nonetheless. Struggles against fear &amp; frustration, loss and abandonment, or even just struggling with getting out of bed or running out of coffee. Yet it is these struggles that define us. Like the lines that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2015\/12\/04\/the-struggle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Struggle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[167,386,375],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life","tag-personal","tag-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-1f5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":219,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/09\/23\/the-divider\/","url_meta":{"origin":4779,"position":0},"title":"The Divider","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 23, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"The partisanship going on in our government, the struggle between left and right, is now getting so strong, so violent, that I truly believe that it will destroy our American lifestyle This sort of stuff just has to stop.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5869,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2022\/11\/14\/mental-multitasking\/","url_meta":{"origin":4779,"position":1},"title":"Mental Multitasking","author":"Keith Survell","date":"November 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a common stereotype of programmers, which is that they are inherently good at multitasking due to the type of work we do. 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