{"id":692,"date":"2007-09-28T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2007\/09\/an-undeserved-reputation\/"},"modified":"2008-12-04T07:19:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T07:19:50","slug":"an-undeserved-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2007\/09\/an-undeserved-reputation\/","title":{"rendered":"An Undeserved Reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a horrible thing to get a reputation. As soon as I have one I want to lose it. Reputations are millstones of expectation, hung around my neck, mostly by people who have given up on their own talents.<\/p>\n<p>I seethe against and resent accolades especially. The laurels may as well be poison ivy leaving scars on my scalp &#8211; I do not want to wear them. Supposed glory means nothing to me, moments of other people&#8217;s bliss which have no bearing on my own state of mind. I have several times looked about me as a delighted throng cavorts for some reason connected to an action of mine I consider insignificant.<\/p>\n<p>I have sometimes even been mistaken for a kind of hero, or worse, genius. I work particularly hard against those last two insidious lies, trotted out by the complacent, and deserved by scant few in this life and certainly not by me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sign of self-esteem to refuse flattery, although it&#8217;s often confused with self-hatred. No, mate, self-hatred would have me pissed in the gutter, with a cocaine nosebleed, and I gave up drugs and alcohol years ago. It&#8217;s a tougher and less gratifying path to travel most of the time, this sceptical philosophy, but one I find fulfilling.<\/p>\n<p>Now, dance!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lotussculpture.com\/images\/nata5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a horrible thing to get a reputation. As soon as I have one I want to lose it. Reputations are millstones of expectation, hung around my neck, mostly by people who have given up on their own talents. I seethe against and resent accolades especially. The laurels may as well be poison ivy leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,780],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-dance","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}