{"id":171,"date":"2010-03-09T03:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2010-03-09T03:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T03:53:00","slug":"jealous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Jealous?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bet you thought I fell off the face of the earth. Go ahead, admit it.<\/p>\n

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And I wasn’t even staying here!<\/p>\n

My question for the day is: Do you ever feel jealous of people with certain talents? I do.<\/p>\n

I cannot listen to anyone who can sing with feeling a sense of jealousy, no matter how moving the music might be. I suspect that the jealousy comes from the fact that I am and have always been a poor singer. Bad enough that the Son and L banned me from singing in the house, even in the shower. It could be because I have an absolutely atrocious sense of pitch, it could be because I am tone deaf, it might even be because I never can remember lyrics. (Which is strange since I can remember whole books close to word for word.)<\/i> In any case, I feel envy and jealousy when i hear a great singer or choral group.<\/p>\n

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Another group that I envy and feel jealous of are proto-gymnasts. You know, those absolutely flexible and lithe little people who always look graceful, even if they are tripping down a flight of stairs. Given that I was 6’4″ and 250 lbs. by seventh grade, it is safe to say that I never went through a stage of being tiny, nor lithe, nor graceful. The phrase big-galoot comes to mind. So whenever I see a proto-gymnast, I envy them and am jealous. Primarily because I wonder what it would be like to go through life not tripping over things and never running into door ways and walls, not having to consciously maneuver through a crowd so as not to crush someone. The world must seem like a very different place to those lithe little people.<\/p>\n

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So who or what skills do you feel jealous of?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bet you thought I fell off the face of the earth. Go ahead, admit it. And I wasn’t even staying here! My question for the day is: Do you ever feel jealous of people with certain talents? I do. I cannot listen to anyone who can sing with feeling a sense of jealousy, no matter … Continue reading Jealous?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}