{"id":234,"date":"2020-09-20T18:07:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T18:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2020-10-19T19:09:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:09:38","slug":"honest-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/honest-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Honest Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m not a writer. I can\u2019t write and so I didn\u2019t until I was 33. Even though I know, writing like any other skill-set can be learned. And yes, I\u2019ve written countless posts that never saw the light of the day. The reasons varied every time but I knew this was a fear I had to overcome. And I was in luck. My friends made a pact of writing one blog every Sunday and I joined them on a whim.\u00a0I knew it would be easy to write about work <span class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-2-color\">(given the long list of drafts and notes, I\u2019ve gathered.)<\/span> Thus, I decided to write about my learnings, failures &#8211; and be brutally honest. It was daunting and scary.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still remember the joy and the fear I felt every time I published the blog. Each blog reveals something vulnerable about me. It\u2019s relatable. I want people who read these posts to know that you aren\u2019t alone in dealing with the obstacles and failures in your day-to-day life. Social media paints a rosy image of a picture-perfect ideal life. It\u2019s time to put the honest filters on and remind each other that we are human. And these imperfections are what make us <strong><em>&#8216;Imperfectly Perfkect&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a writer. I can\u2019t write and so I didn\u2019t until I was 33. Even though I know, writing like any other skill-set can be learned. And yes, I\u2019ve written countless posts that never saw the light of the day. The reasons varied every time but I knew this was a fear I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"category-personal","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"vasudha","author_link":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/author\/vasudha\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}