{"id":2602,"date":"2015-06-07T13:12:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.der5er.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2021-07-22T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T20:20:08","slug":"potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/07\/potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150607_094009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2603\" src=\"http:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150607_094009-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150607_094009\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150607_094009-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150607_094009-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00c2&nbsp;That is my favorite pan. \u00c2&nbsp;Just a round, flat griddle big enough to hold a few eggs or strips of bacon. \u00c2&nbsp;Or some potatoes and cheese. Or scrambled eggs in a tortilla. \u00c2&nbsp;Popeyes (fried egg inside a piece of toast). I&#8217;ve done a lot with that pan, and usually I don&#8217;t have any idea what I&#8217;m going to make for second breakfast until I&#8217;ve got that pan warmed up. \u00c2&nbsp;That pan, like this empty blog, is\u00c2&nbsp;potential.<\/p>\n<p>For the last two years, my New Year&#8217;s Resolution has been to write more. \u00c2&nbsp;And so far I&#8217;ve failed at that. \u00c2&nbsp;I think partly it was because all the old posts (496 of them) made this seem like a huge place. \u00c2&nbsp;Many of those posts were some of the best stuff I&#8217;ve ever written, and it always felt like I had a lot to live up to writing here.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t deleted the old posts. \u00c2&nbsp;I&#8217;ve just made them all private. \u00c2&nbsp;But seeing the front page empty was especially freeing. \u00c2&nbsp;So, here&#8217;s hoping I can keep this up and get back in to the habit of writing what I&#8217;m thinking about now and again. \u00c2&nbsp;Also, I hope you enjoy reading what I write as much as I enjoyed eating what I filled the pan with this morning!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150607_094816.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-2604 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150607_094816-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150607_094816\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150607_094816-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150607_094816-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s your favorite symbol of potential?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2&nbsp;That is my favorite pan. \u00c2&nbsp;Just a round, flat griddle big enough to hold a few eggs or strips of bacon. \u00c2&nbsp;Or some potatoes and cheese. Or scrambled eggs in a tortilla. \u00c2&nbsp;Popeyes (fried egg inside a piece of toast). I&#8217;ve done a lot with that pan, and usually I don&#8217;t have any idea what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/07\/potential\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Potential<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der5er.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}