{"id":4654,"date":"2010-04-08T20:38:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T04:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2010-04-08T20:38:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T04:38:47","slug":"the-wisdom-of-rumer-willis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-wisdom-of-rumer-willis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom of Rumer Willis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rumer-willis-is-present.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4655\" title=\"rumer willis is present\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rumer-willis-is-present.jpg?resize=400%2C400\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rumer-willis-is-present.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rumer-willis-is-present.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rumer-willis-is-present.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having trouble with Being Present. I find that whatever I&#8217;m doing, I&#8217;m somewhere else in my head.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t good. It causes a lot of household problems, because I don&#8217;t remember what I started out to do. The only time I am fully engaged is when I&#8217;m reading a book. Even reading the New Yorker, I manage to think about something else, or just think about myself trying to take an interest in the article I&#8217;m not interested in.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still&nbsp;\u00a0 doing physical therapy for the broken hip, and today I noticed that while I was exercising my leg, I was thinking about my son&#8217;s elbow.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be present, but I&#8217;m absent.<\/p>\n<p>Is this due to old age, or all the drugs, or the result of the Internet destroying my attention span? How can I learn to be present without getting the tattoo-reminder?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d rather think about <strong>Rumer Willis<\/strong> than my existential malaise, try <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.gather.com\/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978146256\" target=\"_blank\">watching<\/a> her lesbian kiss from some TV show where she plays a lesbian (ha!) and looks just like her dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having trouble with Being Present. I find that whatever I&#8217;m doing, I&#8217;m somewhere else in my head. This isn&#8217;t good. It causes a lot of household problems, because I don&#8217;t remember what I started out to do. The only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-wisdom-of-rumer-willis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[166,443,728],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1d4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}