{"id":1156,"date":"2010-04-30T18:32:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T13:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2010-04-30T18:32:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T13:02:46","slug":"who-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2010\/04\/who-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Who You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8164.org\/remember-who-you-are\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jin<\/a>, I discovered a gem of a\u00a0guest post on the excellent GapingVoid blog.\u00a0 In &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gapingvoid.com\/2010\/04\/15\/you-less-than\/\" target=\"_blank\">You, Less Than<\/a>&#8220;, Pamela Slim presents her views on finding an identity that is distinct and true to your self.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Circumstances can cause you to question who you are&#8230; A boss writes you a stinging performance review&#8230; A reader leaves a bitter comment on your blog post&#8230; A vocal audience member questions your authority in the middle of your presentation&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And you go from You, The Champion of the World to&#8230; You, less than.<\/p>\n<p>When you fall into this deep pit of treachery and despair, you need something to pull you out. An image, a word, a note. It helps when this object reflects both the love you have for yourself as well as the love someone has for you.<\/p>\n<p>Like a picture of you through your parent\u2019s eyes&#8230; Or a note from an impassioned reader who loved the piece that you loved to write&#8230; Or a rock from a beach that was so beautiful you could swear that the sand was kissing your feet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You, less than, is a lie&#8230;\u00a0Remember who you are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember who <em>you<\/em> are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jin, I discovered a gem of a\u00a0guest post on the excellent GapingVoid blog.\u00a0 In &#8220;You, Less Than&#8220;, Pamela Slim presents her views on<\/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,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,10],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life","tag-society"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}