{"id":966,"date":"2026-05-31T04:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/matt-maybe\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T04:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:49:08","slug":"matt-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/matt-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I heard this parable somewhere in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Out-of-Your-Mind-Audiobook\/B0161LXWGK\">14 hours of Alan Watts lectures<\/a> someone <a href=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2017\/12\/books-in-2017\/\">recommended to me in 2017<\/a>, but here\u2019s a beautiful 2-minute version I\u2019d love to share for everyone going through something.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really appreciate the love and support I received after the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2026\/05\/wp23\/\">WP23 post<\/a>, and I do want to tell people I\u2019m okay, the post was part catharsis and part giving voice to what I see and hear privately from people who aren\u2019t public figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On weekends, I like to look back on the week and find a silver lining or learning from things that were challenging. It helps reframe things. After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therepository.email\/wp-engine-and-automattic-trade-accusations-of-withheld-evidence-in-flurry-of-court-filings\">it was reported<\/a> that I had 21 hours of depositions over 3 days, people were like \u201cwow that must have been terrible,\u201d but actually, while the prep and process were intense, I found it energizing and I learned a ton. Will post more about that later. You never know where things will lead.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I heard this parable somewhere in the 14 hours of Alan Watts lectures someone recommended to me in 2017, but here\u2019s a beautiful 2-minute version I\u2019d love to share for everyone going through something. I really appreciate the love and support I received after the WP23 post, and I do want to tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}