{"id":4355,"date":"2023-08-25T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2023-08-25T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:32:00","slug":"cutting-corners-to-defeat-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/25\/cutting-corners-to-defeat-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting corners (to defeat evil)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:  So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. <\/p>\n<cite>Proverbs 6:10-11<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Proverb describes the gradual process that transforms a vast beautiful vineyard into a wasteland overrun by weeds. Death by a thousand cuts. Destruction by a thousand moments of slack, neglect, cutting corners and letting things slide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now imagine using this same process against &#8220;the forces of evil&#8221; that are keeping you from achieving your goals and becoming the person you want to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of trying to beat them with discipline, try using laziness to defeat them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, instead of eating all 12 donuts before bed, slack off and eat 11. Instead of watching all 5 episodes of that new show when you need to go to bed, lazily just watch 4&#8230;or watch all 5 whilst doing something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Procrastinate in doing &#8220;evil&#8221;, and watch it gradually get choked to death through neglect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. Proverbs 6:10-11 This Proverb describes the gradual process that transforms a vast beautiful vineyard into a wasteland overrun by weeds. Death by a thousand &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/25\/cutting-corners-to-defeat-evil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cutting corners (to defeat evil)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}