{"id":780,"date":"2009-08-10T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2009-08-10T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T11:19:00","slug":"optimists-pessimists-opportunists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Optimists, Pessimists, Opportunists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the glass half full or half empty?<\/p>\n<p>Optimists will say it&#8217;s half full<\/p>\n<p>Pessimists will say it&#8217;s half empty<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re an optimist or a pessimist, it makes no difference, you still have half a glass, and that&#8217;s all you&#8217;ll ever have, unless you take action to change things. If you&#8217;re not going to do anything about filling it, stop fooling yourself, as it&#8217;s time to get a glass that&#8217;s half the size, as a glass that is full to the brim is always better than one half full or half empty.<\/p>\n<p>So next time someone asks you whether your glass is half empty or half full, be an opportunist&#8230; ask them for a top up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the glass half full or half empty? Optimists will say it&#8217;s half full Pessimists will say it&#8217;s half empty Whether you&#8217;re an optimist or a pessimist, it makes no difference, you still have half a glass, and that&#8217;s all you&#8217;ll ever have, unless you take action to change things. If you&#8217;re not going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[235,238,239,241],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel","tag-is-the-glass-half-full-or-half-empty","tag-opportunist","tag-optimist","tag-pessimist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}