{"id":12388,"date":"2011-05-09T23:23:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T04:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12388"},"modified":"2011-05-09T23:23:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T04:23:52","slug":"know-what-you-want-and-how-to-ask-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12388","title":{"rendered":"Know what you want and how to ask for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague and I met for the morning to talk about business and then we had lunch and late in the afternoon we watched, How Do You Know with Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rund. A therapist in the movie says the end all be all of what he&#8217;s learned from his clients is that you need to know what you want and be able to ask for it. It took me 48 years to do that and when I did figure it out I said I wanted to live in New Orleans and adopt a child.<\/p>\n<p>So now if I complain, someone needs to hit my head with a brick.<\/p>\n<p>But meanwhile, I realize the importance of many different kinds of people in my life and Tin&#8217;s life. Like a friend who will explains the difference between a boy and a girl&#8217;s anatomy. And understanding different music from different musicians. And having those around us that love and want to support us in mysterious ways.<\/p>\n<p>To all of this I want to know now not how to make money but how to make a difference and I&#8217;m offering that question up to the universe because I think it has an answer for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague and I met for the morning to talk about business and then we had lunch and late in the afternoon we watched, How Do You Know with Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rund. A therapist in the movie says the end all be all of what he&#8217;s learned from his clients is that you need to know what you want and be able to ask for it. It took me 48 years to do&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-3dO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12389,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions\/12389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}