{"id":24,"date":"2012-02-01T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/?p=24"},"modified":"2013-07-02T04:06:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T04:06:25","slug":"mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/thoughts\/mediocrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comparing yourself with someone else, trying to be like another is the shortest and surest route to mediocrity.<\/p>\n<p>Why try evaluating yourself against an inaccurate standard? If you seek to constantly get better, try evaluating your present against your past self. While this may not be the best solution (which is not comparing at all) it\u00a0at least\u00a0helps you find the right measuring stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparing yourself with someone else, trying to be like another is the shortest and surest route to mediocrity.<\/p>\n<p>Why try evaluating yourself against an inaccurate standard? If you seek to constantly get better, try evaluating your present against your past self. While this may not be the best solution (which is not comparing at all) it\u00a0at least\u00a0helps you find the right measuring stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[6,36,8,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}