{"id":35178,"date":"2026-02-02T13:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35178"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:58:25","slug":"not-doing-my-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35178","title":{"rendered":"Not Doing My Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot_20260202_105254.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a Sesame Street Facebook post with Cookie Monster and the caption, &quot;You are doing the best that you can.&quot;\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35179\" \/>I would be doing better if I had cookies.  Which I do not.  So I am only <i>doing<\/i>.  Not doing better.  Not doing best.<\/p>\n<p>Just doing.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the store has more.  I <i>can<\/i> go to the store.  I <i>can<\/i> satisfy my need for cookies.  I <i>can<\/i> do the best that I can.<\/p>\n<p>Cookies are needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would be doing better if I had cookies. Which I do not. So I am only doing. Not doing better. Not doing best. Just doing. Yes, the store has more. I can go to the store. I can satisfy my need for cookies. I can do the best that I can. Cookies are needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4004,752,4401],"class_list":["post-35178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-cookie-monster","tag-facebook","tag-sesame-street","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}