{"id":1552,"date":"2019-12-07T17:30:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T00:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2019-12-07T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T17:05:21","slug":"freedom-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1552","title":{"rendered":"Freedom to Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve written <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1364\">before<\/a> that I enjoy working the Friday meta crossword puzzle in the Wall Street Journal and that sometimes solutions come quicker than others. But what happens when they don\u2019t come? <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/puzzle\/2019\/12\/05\/then-and-now-crossword-contest-december-6\/\">This week\u2019s<\/a> has been particularly frustrating because I can see all the hidden words I\u2019m supposed to see, but I can\u2019t tease an answer out of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem then is that I devote too much time to it. As I write this Saturday morning, I\u2019ve been messing with the puzzle since Thursday afternoon. Too much. And it interferes with other things I should be doing. So I\u2019m taking another sabbatical from these things. I\u2019ve done it before. I just don\u2019t look at them for weeks or months. Sometimes moderation isn\u2019t possible. I just have to quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don\u2019t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. (Galatians 5.13, NLT)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You say, \u201cI am allowed to do anything\u201d\u2014but not everything is good for you. And even though \u201cI am allowed to do anything,\u201d I must not become a slave to anything. (1 Corinthians 6.12, NLT)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written before that I enjoy working the Friday meta crossword puzzle in the Wall Street Journal and that sometimes solutions come quicker than others. But what happens when they don\u2019t come? This week\u2019s has been particularly frustrating because I can see all the hidden words I\u2019m supposed to see, but I can\u2019t tease an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1552\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freedom to Quit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-p2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}