{"id":2731,"date":"2003-04-19T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-19T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2020-08-25T22:03:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T02:03:23","slug":"up-and-down-with-a-lot-of-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2731","title":{"rendered":"Up and down, with a lot of down."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I’ve been up and down. Once more, I feel like I’m out of work. I’m not, and my company will burst into profitability as soon as we get our name out there. That’s it, though. And I just know<\/i> Dad is going to ask about rent tomorrow, and I’m going to have to say that I will probably need help this month.<\/p>\n

Gods, I hate that.<\/p>\n

So, I’m in that spot again. That funk, that dismal outlook upon the world, that unjustified feeling of failure.<\/p>\n

I have to keep doing things to make sure that I’m not a failure. I have to keep active, keep creating, keep thinking ahead, keep doing<\/b> things ahead of the people that we’re targeting for our business.<\/p>\n

I came out of the first job, and I said to , “I would be one happy fat man if I could do this for the rest of my life.” And it’s true.<\/lj><\/p>\n

Tonight is Easter at ‘s dad’s house, with her family. Tomorrow is Easter with my parentals. I don’t think I’ve celebrated Easter (much less Ostara) for years. It’s so very strange that it’s so big and important this time around. I don’t quite get it.<\/lj><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I’ve been up and down. Once more, I feel like I’m out of work. I’m not, and my company will burst into profitability as soon as we get our name out there. That’s it, though. And I just know … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-I3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}