{"id":421,"date":"2012-06-14T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2013-12-26T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T19:38:59","slug":"habits-can-be-habit-forming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/thought-about\/habits-can-be-habit-forming\/","title":{"rendered":"Habits can be habit forming"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been talking about walking to work for months. It was a little too cold this winter and the motivation to get up and walk to work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t know how<\/a> I was going to feel about walking. I didn’t know how the walks would go. I didn’t know if I would be able to keep up the walking when I did start.<\/p>\n

I was excited about the opportunity to walk home after a long day. Being outside and enjoying the evening after being cooped up all day was a welcome change. However, the morning walk to get me to work was daunting. I am not a morning person and getting up and out the door earlier than I had been was holding me back.<\/p>\n

Just as I struggled with going to the gym, I was missing the point. It didn’t matter how far I walked or how often I did, I needed to get up and go.<\/a> The hardest part of exercising is sitting on the couch, tying my shoes and looking at the front door. Everything after the front door is easy by comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been talking about walking to work for months. It was a little too cold this winter and the motivation to get up and walk to work. I didn’t know how I was going to feel about walking. I didn’t know how the walks would go. I didn’t know if I would be able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[105],"tags":[349,228,319],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thought-about","tag-exercise","tag-motivation","tag-walk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}