{"id":234,"date":"2016-04-18T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=234"},"modified":"2025-06-24T20:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:30:34","slug":"opening-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/opening-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going back through my blog posts I guess there are many different sorts of trigger &#8211; things which spark some sort of idea in my mind that leads to some sort of outpouring here. Often, I guess, the result is quite out of proportion to the cause &#8211; many times the trigger takes me off at quite a tangent.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Such is the case here &#8211; the trigger this time was an &#8220;inspirational quote&#8221; used as part of a LinkedIn post. I don&#8217;t know the author &#8211; seems to have come from that prolific writer &#8211; anon &#8211; but it &#8220;made me think&#8221; &#8211; which is always a bad thing&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div class=\"quotecenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Open your book of life only to a few people. Because in this world very few care to understand the chapters, others are just curious to know.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>The only reaction you can have to that is &#8220;how true&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going back through my blog posts I guess there are many different sorts of trigger &#8211; things which spark some sort of idea in my mind that leads to some sort of outpouring here. Often, I guess, the result is quite out of proportion to the cause &#8211; many times the trigger takes me off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/opening-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opening Up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[86,119],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ignorance","tag-friends","tag-worldview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}