{"id":839,"date":"2010-10-07T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=839"},"modified":"2010-10-07T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T12:19:11","slug":"839","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"How they see you"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"somriure\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/46527925@N04\/5056106275\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4128\/5056106275_b4982e8b2b.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"somriure\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Did this guy always have a beard? A hat?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><small><a title=\"Attribution License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo-dropper\/images\/cc.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photodropper.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a> credit: <a title=\"xavi talleda\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/46527925@N04\/5056106275\/\" target=\"_blank\">xavi talleda<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it strange how people see you?<\/p>\n<p>For example, I currently weigh about ten pounds less than I did a couple of months ago, but about fifteen pounds more than I did ten years ago.<\/p>\n<p>If I sat in a room with two people from different times in my life, one of them would be thinking how puffy I look and the other might be thinking how good I look. (&#8220;Good&#8221; being a relative term, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the guy in the picture above isn&#8217;t me. I don&#8217;t know who that is. It&#8217;s a random pic I found on the Web with a Creative Commons license, so I used it.<\/p>\n<p>When you meet a person with a beard, you just think of that person as having a beard. It doesn&#8217;t matter that he just grew it a month ago and never had a beard for the first 45 years of his life. To you, the guy is a beard guy. To his friends, he&#8217;s a clean-shaven guy who&#8217;s wearing a beard now for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>What is this all leading up to, you ask? What&#8217;s the larger point I&#8217;m trying to make?<\/p>\n<p>You must be new to this blog. There&#8217;s no larger point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo credit: xavi talleda Isn&#8217;t it strange how people see you? For example, I currently weigh about ten pounds less than I did a couple of months ago, but about fifteen pounds more than I did ten years ago. If I sat in a room with two people from different times in my life, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}