{"id":2541,"date":"2025-09-01T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2025-09-01T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:00:17","slug":"ghosts-motivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/ghosts-motivated","title":{"rendered":"Motivated Haunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ghosts\/cantdoit01.png\" title=\"I love it when I'm told I can't do something. It just makes me want to do it more, to prove them wrong.\" class=\"ghost\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ghosts\/cantdoit02.png\" title=\"Blue: You can't do anything. 'See? Now I've got to succeed and prove you wrong.'\" class=\"ghost\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ghosts\/cantdoit03.png\" title=\"Green: Is that your whole motivation? So if someone believed in you and wanted you to succeed, this would hinder rather than encourage you? 'Ummm...'\" class=\"ghost\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ghosts\/cantdoit04.png\" title=\"Blue: Shall we assume no one in your life believes in you and wants you to succeed? 'Uhhh...'\" class=\"ghost\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ghosts\/cantdoit05.png\" title=\"Green: Or perhaps some do, but despite this, or because of this, you ignore them and respond only to emotional abuse.\" class=\"ghost\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ghosts\/cantdoit06.png\" title=\"'Hmmm, I don't know. I'll have to figure this out...' Blue: You can do it!\" class=\"ghost\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was a year ago today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2024\/09\/01\/blue-and-green\" title=\"Blue and Green\" class=\"fort\">the ghosts debuted<\/a>. I&#8217;d offer words of encouragement to them, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a year ago today the ghosts debuted. I&#8217;d offer words of encouragement to them, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghosts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}