{"id":1249,"date":"2026-03-15T18:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:56:27","slug":"lent-what-are-you-giving-up-for-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/?p=1249","title":{"rendered":"Lent&#8230; What are you giving up for Lent?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So I guess I speculate a bit about what people are giving up for Lent these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to give up worrying about things you can&#8217;t control. It&#8217;s best to still live in the moment&#8230; but is that overrated? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overrated, as in not being able to see past good and bad decisions. You need to use good diligence and not go wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the old teachings of living in the moment are thought wrong and loosely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There may be changes coming to the website next month, and maybe taking it offline to fix it up and give it a new lease of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Changes are definitely coming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I guess I speculate a bit about what people are giving up for Lent these days. I decided to give up worrying about things you can&#8217;t control. It&#8217;s best to still live in the moment&#8230; but is that overrated? Overrated, as in not being able to see past good and bad decisions. You need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}