{"id":5312,"date":"2026-05-31T04:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2026-05-31T04:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:49:08","slug":"matt-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/?p=5312","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I heard this parable somewhere in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Out-of-Your-Mind-Audiobook\/B0161LXWGK\">14 hours of Alan Watts lectures<\/a> someone <a href=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2017\/12\/books-in-2017\/\">recommended to me in 2017<\/a>, but here\u2019s a beautiful 2-minute version I\u2019d love to share for everyone going through something.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really appreciate the love and support I received after the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2026\/05\/wp23\/\">WP23 post<\/a>, and I do want to tell people I\u2019m okay, the post was part catharsis and part giving voice to what I see and hear privately from people who aren\u2019t public figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On weekends, I like to look back on the week and find a silver lining or learning from things that were challenging. It helps reframe things. After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therepository.email\/wp-engine-and-automattic-trade-accusations-of-withheld-evidence-in-flurry-of-court-filings\">it was reported<\/a> that I had 21 hours of depositions over 3 days, people were like \u201cwow that must have been terrible,\u201d but actually, while the prep and process were intense, I found it energizing and I learned a ton. Will post more about that later. You never know where things will lead.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I heard this parable somewhere in the 14 hours of Alan Watts lectures someone recommended to me in 2017, but here\u2019s a beautiful 2-minute version I\u2019d love to share for everyone going through something. I really appreciate the love and support I received after the WP23 post, and I do want to tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}