{"id":39983,"date":"2025-09-24T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=39983"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:57:11","slug":"to-make-you-appreciate-what-you-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/09\/to-make-you-appreciate-what-you-have\/","title":{"rendered":"To make you appreciate what you have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to take things for granted, so from time to time, it&#8217;s actually good for people to suffer a little just so they understand that their life isn&#8217;t normally bad at all, which is what today&#8217;s holiday is all about, since this is <strong>Now You Know It Could Be Worse Day<\/strong>. And humanitarian that I am, I&#8217;m prepared (well, not exactly, since this should have posted <em>hours<\/em> ago,) to help you fully appreciate what you have, because it&#8217;s time to inflict a little pain. Nothing nasty, no no, just a little groan-invoking, that low-grade headache that won&#8217;t go away fast enough, and all you have to do it sit back and let it happen. Well, after you hit &#8216;Play&#8217; anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1121664773?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Really More of a Podcast\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now, if that wasn&#8217;t enough to make you really happy with your life, I&#8217;m also prepared to come back and tell you all the fun that I had <em>making<\/em> this, because I&#8217;m that kind of guy. One way or another, you&#8217;ll learn to embrace life without, well, my help.<\/p>\n<p>And not that I&#8217;d ever be the target of such inquiries, but this might well be enough to prevent you from asking about someone&#8217;s creative processes ever again. Just Mr. Magnanimous, aren&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2018\/08\/podcast-hybridcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous version<\/a>, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/08\/estate-find-xxxii-always-have-fresh-batteries\/\" target=\"_blank\">video with the voiceover assistance of the grey treefrogs<\/a>, which might also serve the same purpose as this one, depending on how you feel about snakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to take things for granted, so from time to time, it&#8217;s actually good for people to suffer a little just so they understand that their life isn&#8217;t normally bad at all, which is what today&#8217;s holiday is all about, since this is Now You Know It Could Be Worse Day. And humanitarian that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,3,12,3809],"tags":[8300,8301,3257,8297,8299,8298,8302,4517],"class_list":["post-39983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","category-video","tag-dad-jokes","tag-execrable-puns","tag-mst3k","tag-now-you-know-it-could-be-worse-day","tag-really-really-questionable-definition-of-humor","tag-samson-was-a-fat-fuck","tag-shameless","tag-some-minds-you-should-never-peek-into"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}