{"id":5114,"date":"2011-12-21T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T07:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2011-12-22T22:59:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T06:59:44","slug":"forgetting-to-be-forgetful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5114","title":{"rendered":"Forgetting to be forgetful."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really only have ONE PRESCRIPTION DRUG that I need to take and it&#8217;s probably keeping me alive. So why is it that for the past two weeks I KEEP FORGETTING TO TAKE MY MEDICINE? Sheesh.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I am getting old. I have to leave notes to myself to remember to do SIMPLE THINGS like putting away my laundry or cleaning the bathroom. Actually I suppose I&#8217;m just avoiding things I don&#8217;t want to do right away and I need the reminders to get me off my fat football-watching ass. I should take a cue from my brother-in-law and just put EVERYTHING on a list including things like &#8220;eat lunch&#8221;. That way I get used to making the lists and following up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried using the reminder apps on my iPhone but a physical hand-written list seems to work the best for me. Weird how that works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really only have ONE PRESCRIPTION DRUG that I need to take and it&#8217;s probably keeping me alive. So why is it that for the past two weeks I KEEP FORGETTING TO TAKE MY MEDICINE? Sheesh. Well, I am getting old. I have to leave notes to myself to remember to do SIMPLE THINGS like putting away my laundry or cleaning the bathroom. Actually I suppose I&#8217;m just avoiding things I don&#8217;t want to do right away and I need the reminders to get me off my fat football-watching ass. I should take a cue from my brother-in-law and just put EVERYTHING on a list including things like &#8220;eat lunch&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Forgetting to be forgetful.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}