{"id":1040,"date":"2007-09-14T09:25:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T07:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1040"},"modified":"2007-11-23T08:48:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T06:48:30","slug":"10-things-i-like-about-myself-to-be-thankful-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1040","title":{"rendered":"10 Things I like about myself (to be thankful for!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/andropolis.typepad.com\/millipede_jr\/\">Abi<\/a> tagged me nearly a month ago to do this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_meme\">meme<\/a>, and in between the chaos of birthdays (I think I&#8217;ve counted about 6 that I&#8217;ve celebrated in the last few weeks!) and other things (like, you know, <em>life<\/em>), I have not had a chance to do it.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to tag people, because most of my friends have done this one already, or&#8230;they may not want to do it. At first when I was writing this list, I felt rather self-centered and narcissistic. But then I started thinking about it as a way to count my blessings and remind myself of how lucky I am.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. I am a <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bahai.org\"><strong>Baha&#8217;i<\/strong><\/a><strong>. This is the reason I am who I am.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. My genetic material. It is pretty darn good (thanks Mom &amp; Dad!).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. I surprise people, especially when they make assumptions about my character\/intellectual abilities based on superficial qualities such as my physical appearance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. I am generally an optimist, but have a nice dose of cynicism to keep my feet on the ground.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. I used to be a shy person, and sometimes that is still there, but I made a conscious effort to overcome it over the last 8 years. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>6. I read a lot of books.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7. I don&#8217;t hold grudges and it is very difficult for me to lie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>8. I take care of people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>9. I laugh easily.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10. I know how to cook, and I love doing it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abi tagged me nearly a month ago to do this meme, and in between the chaos of birthdays (I think I&#8217;ve counted about 6 that I&#8217;ve celebrated in the last few weeks!) and other things (like, you know, life), I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}