{"id":1976,"date":"2015-10-31T10:31:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T17:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2015-10-31T10:41:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T17:41:29","slug":"1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/31\/1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you ept?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/knight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1977\" src=\"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/knight.jpg\" alt=\"knight\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/knight.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/knight-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/knight-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I woke up this morning wishing that I were ept.<\/p>\n<p>I know quite a few people who are ept. A friend and colleague who, although he was a successful academic, makes beautiful musical instruments and bakes cakes. A neighbour who professionally is a geologist is also a master gardener and garden designer. And can put in watering systems. An administrator in the security business who also builds barns, installs kitchens, creates entire decorative wheelbarrows out of wood. A son who creates a virtual reality business but also built, along with his father in law, a pole house.<\/p>\n<p>These people all do demanding intellectual and creative jobs but also are able to do a myriad of practical tasks.<\/p>\n<p>And then there are others, like yours truly, who are inept. In grade eight, I passed the shops course because when I was using the lathe, I pressed too hard on the chisel, the chisel slipped and my thumb got lathed. I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning wishing that I were ept. I know quite a few people who are ept. A friend and colleague who, although he was a successful academic, makes beautiful musical instruments and bakes cakes. A neighbour who professionally is a geologist is also a master gardener and garden designer. And can put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2141,1884,1885,1883,1882,2148],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-competence","tag-ept","tag-inept","tag-self-esteem","tag-self-image","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}