{"id":395,"date":"2009-12-15T19:16:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T19:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/?p=395"},"modified":"2019-02-11T21:21:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:21:50","slug":"a-hoarder-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/a-hoarder-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"a hoarder reforms &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/chuckout2.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck out\" class=\"wp-image-260\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>this afternoon i emptied out the bottom drawer of my filing cabinet, &amp; consigned about a third of the contents to the recycling bin. i decided i could live without numerous rejection letters, payslips for columns i wrote in 2002, copies of my CV from the last century, statements of rates &amp; insurance payments for the house i sold in 1995, &amp; paperwork for my time(s) on the unemployment benefit in the 1980s.<br> <br>i know what you&#8217;re thinking &#8211; you&#8217;re aghast that i&#8217;ve kept all this stuff for this long; you&#8217;re amazed that rusty paperclips, silverfish and rising damp haven&#8217;t dealt to the accumulation already (actually i only suffer from the first of those blights); &amp; you&#8217;re laughing because you know that the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet is only the tip of this hoarder&#8217;s iceberg &#8230; but hey, it&#8217;s a start! i&#8217;ve been ruthless! (by my standards anyway). &amp; i feel good &#8211; lighter &#8211; slightly &#8230; &amp; not too daunted by all the other drawers, cupboards, and boxes under the bed &#8230;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this afternoon i emptied out the bottom drawer of my filing cabinet, &amp; consigned about a third of the contents to the recycling bin. i<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/a-hoarder-reforms\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}