{"id":32721,"date":"2011-05-15T19:35:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T03:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32721"},"modified":"2011-05-15T19:35:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T03:35:07","slug":"am-i-in-control-of-my-own-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32721","title":{"rendered":"Am I In Control Of My Own Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I am more in control of my life than ever before. Through Alexander Technique, I&#8217;ve learned to inhibit many of my habitual responses that don&#8217;t serve me. Through psycho-therapy, I&#8217;ve gained clarity on my emotions, thoughts and actions. Through Orthodox Judaism, I have a clear sense of who I am and what my responsibilities are.<\/p>\n<p>Is this sense of mastery I&#8217;m feeling over my life an illusion? Are my addictions running my life or am I running my life?<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I am running my life. I feel like I have free will. Yet, when I look back on my life, I see that almost all of the choices I made were fated.<\/p>\n<p>I was fated to break down into chronic illness. I was fated to not pursue my studies in economics. I was fated to flirt with acting before settling down to my true calling of writing. I was fated to investigate underworlds. I was fated to write about Dennis Prager.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Prager is fated to run for president in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fated to do important writing on the forthcoming election. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I am more in control of my life than ever before. Through Alexander Technique, I&#8217;ve learned to inhibit many of my habitual responses that don&#8217;t serve me. Through psycho-therapy, I&#8217;ve gained clarity on my emotions, thoughts and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32721\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}