{"id":691,"date":"2010-06-11T06:56:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2010-06-11T06:58:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:58:14","slug":"sunrise-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img title=\"What, was I still drunk from the night before when I shot this?\" alt=\"What, was I still drunk from the night before when I shot this?\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1293\/4689959011_628dec015c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, something I&#8217;ve decided to let you know, though there&#8217;s no requirement.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be better.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be a better person, and a better man.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to dress better, and eat better, and cook better.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to write better, and I want to be better at selling my stories\/books\/etc.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to be a better friend to my friends.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to be a better nemesis to my enemies.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to take better pictures.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to make better quantities of money, and I want to spend it in better ways and somehow help to make the world just a little better for my having been here.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been making better eating choices.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been counting steps and exercising more and, in the past few months, have lost almost 20 pounds.\u00c2\u00a0 (Another 40+\/- to go.)\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been trying to dress better, and pay more attention to my appearance, and therefore have bought a tie and a belt and a few other things.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been reading a lot more magazines, things like <em>GQ <\/em>and <em>Men&#8217;s Health<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not aiming to be better than anyone other than myself.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a competition, except maybe when I get on a racquetball court.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to invite you on this journey with me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to invite you to make suggestions, offer advice, etc, regardless of whether I ask for it.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing&#8217;s off-limits.\u00c2\u00a0 And in the near future, I&#8217;ll write, here, about some of the things I&#8217;ve been doing that have worked, and maybe some that haven&#8217;t.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks, in advance, for your help and support.<\/p>\n<p>(This may mean more self portraits in the near future, so as to document my journey.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>So, something I&#8217;ve decided to let you know, though there&#8217;s no requirement. I want to be better. I want to be a better person, and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=691\" title=\"Sunrise 5\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}