{"id":483,"date":"2013-11-24T08:37:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T21:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2013-11-24T08:43:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T21:43:28","slug":"on-delayed-gratification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"On delayed gratification…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s all very well to be impressed by the extent to which the capacity of a 5 year old to delay the consumption of a marshmallow so that they receive two marshmallows later can predict their success in life.<\/p>\n

What I’m less impressed by is the extent to which the same qualities result in ungratified lives?<\/p>\n

I’ve seen many doctor friends successfully delay their gratification indefinitely to the point where they just miss out, on fun, and ultimately on life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s all very well to be impressed by the extent to which the capacity of a 5 year old to delay the consumption of a marshmallow so that they receive two marshmallows later can predict their success in life. What I’m less impressed by is the extent to which the same qualities result in ungratified … Continue reading On delayed gratification…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meaning","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}