{"id":745,"date":"2013-05-27T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=745"},"modified":"2025-09-20T14:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:37:55","slug":"content-need-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"The Need to Share"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I really<\/em> want to write, but I don’t know what<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have this very strong<\/em> desire to put “deep” thoughts out into the world where other people can see them. I strongly suspect it’s a kind of arrogance. Here’s something that I once wrote to a friend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In my life, it has become very clear from experience that being a good listener for others, sharing deep parts of myself, being tolerant where perhaps others are not… these things are the best way for me to become close to people… to get people to like and respond to me. Some people use charm and charisma. Some people use physical attractiveness. For me, it’s empathy. To put it a bit bluntly, it’s something I’m good at.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I’m not asking for help coming up with things to write about. I guess I wanted to “throw” some thoughts out here. This blog has been as much about self-therapy (even before<\/em> I had the wreck and started participating in formal<\/em> therapy) for me as for anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really want to write, but I don’t know what. I have this very strong desire to put “deep” thoughts out into the world where other people can see them. I strongly suspect it’s a kind of arrogance. Here’s something that I once wrote to a friend: In my life, it has become very clear from experience that being a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,25],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-deep-thoughts","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}