{"id":55161,"date":"2014-05-22T09:42:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T17:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55161"},"modified":"2023-09-20T03:42:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T11:42:34","slug":"where-am-i-better-than-the-average-mexican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55161","title":{"rendered":"Where Am I Better Than The Average Mexican?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend says my self-deprecating humor (telling everyone I&#8217;m a felon, that I trade my services for vegie macs) lowers my esteem in other&#8217;s eyes and he&#8217;s recommending I type up a letter of recommendation for myself that he&#8217;ll sign and I&#8217;ll carry around with me and hand out.<\/p>\n<p>Chaim Amalek: Why deprecate yourself when by conventional standards, you don&#8217;t have much value to begin with? Successful people boast, not self-deprecate. Copy them, even if you have to fake it.<\/p>\n<p>How much self deprecation goes on a communal Jewish awards dinners? Or at your orthodox shul? This is an affectation that should be left to the goyim.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to write a list of ten things at which you are better than the average Mexican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend says my self-deprecating humor (telling everyone I&#8217;m a felon, that I trade my services for vegie macs) lowers my esteem in other&#8217;s eyes and he&#8217;s recommending I type up a letter of recommendation for myself that he&#8217;ll sign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-55161","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\/55161","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=55161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55163,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55161\/revisions\/55163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}