{"id":10760,"date":"2021-11-19T14:09:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2021-11-19T14:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:09:52","slug":"words-to-my-sixteen-year-old-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/words-to-my-sixteen-year-old-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Words to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the never-ending stream-of-consciousness that is Twitter, a hypothetical was proposed: &#8220;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">You meet 16-year-old you. You have 10 seconds only. What do you say?<\/span>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And here is my wistful response, speaking as a white-bearded middle-aged man who can look backward on more than a few regrets (just imagine me studying the light shining through a glass of single-malt as my words slowly unwind in a Harrison Ford-style grumble):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Don&#8217;t be so afraid of making the wrong choice. Take the risk. If it doesn&#8217;t work out, don&#8217;t sulk, move on. Travel more. Write more. Give more serious thought to moving away for college. And above all, don&#8217;t just assume you&#8217;ll &#8220;get around to it someday.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why are these things so clear in hindsight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the never-ending stream-of-consciousness that is Twitter, a hypothetical was proposed: &#8220;You meet 16-year-old you. You have 10 seconds only. What do you say?&#8221; And here is my wistful response, speaking as a white-bearded middle-aged man who can look backward on more than a few regrets (just imagine me studying the light shining through a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}