{"id":4368,"date":"2013-09-21T02:13:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T06:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2013-09-21T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T15:01:58","slug":"every-day-is-a-big-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=4368","title":{"rendered":"Every day is a big day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARPE DIEM: SEIZE THE DAY<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fld2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4369\" alt=\"fld2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fld2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Our friend Pete McGraw often says &#8220;today is a big day&#8221;. When people ask why, he says that every day is a big day. As he writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.petermcgraw.org\/2013\/09\/big-day\/\">his blog<\/a>, Pete saw his parents die well before their life expectancies, he saw his house, which sits a mile above sea level, suddenly flooded. It reminded him that life is short and can change for the worse very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Something to keep in mind when deciding about what risks to take and how much weight to put on the distant future.<\/p>\n<p>See Pete&#8217;s flooded house on the Boulder news:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AwNPjnsgncs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font size=1>Photo credit: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shankargallery\/9806276953\/<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Pete McGraw often says &#8220;today is a big day&#8221;. When people ask why, he says that every day is a big day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[697,698,695,694,693,696],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-carpe","tag-diem","tag-ediabd","tag-every-day-is-a-big-day","tag-pete-mcgraw","tag-yolo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-18s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}