{"id":917,"date":"2013-01-01T16:24:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T00:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=917"},"modified":"2013-01-01T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T00:26:14","slug":"stability-is-not-necessarily-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Stability is Not Necessarily a Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many people tend to think it is, but it&#8217;s not. Not really.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good thing if one is in a good situation. It&#8217;s definitely <em>not<\/em> a good thing if one is in a situation (or a place) that one does not like. In the latter case, &#8220;stability&#8221; amounts to being trapped against one&#8217;s will.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s why I&#8217;m not rushing into home ownership. Seattle is really not a very good match for many of my values. It&#8217;s better for me than Portland, and it&#8217;s a useful place to be while I try and get things arranged so I can live someplace more to my liking (which probably means telecommuting), but that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking stability prematurely would merely mean entrapping myself in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many people tend to think it is, but it&#8217;s not. Not really. It&#8217;s a good thing if one is in a good situation. It&#8217;s definitely not a good thing if one is in a situation (or a place) that one does not like. In the latter case, &#8220;stability&#8221; amounts to being trapped against one&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}