{"id":1003,"date":"2004-11-08T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2004-11-08T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-09T03:40:00","slug":"to-keep-in-mind-what-we-want-v-what-we-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"to keep in mind, what we want v what we want to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, when talking with <lj user=slgarrett> it somehow came up that from time to time she had difficulty determining whether her attraction to a person was admiration, a desire to be like that person, or attraction, a desire to have sex with that person.  I know that applies to me more often than I think is good.  All those beefy guys with the hot bodies.  Maybe if I spent more time at the gym, and less time drooling over them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that the more I workout, the more my desire for what I want to be, and what I actually am converge.  But given its rapidity, it&#8217;s got to be due to the mutability of desire.  And a general increase in self-acceptance so long as I&#8217;m working out.  Perhaps it&#8217;s part of Dean Ornish&#8217;s maxim to love one&#8217;s body more as a functional unit, than an aesthetic one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, when talking with it somehow came up that from time to time she had difficulty determining whether her attraction to a person was admiration, a desire to be like that person, or attraction, a desire to have sex with that person. I know that applies to me more often than I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;to keep in mind, what we want v what we want to be&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}