{"id":627,"date":"2015-02-02T19:58:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T05:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2015-02-02T19:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T05:58:20","slug":"day-xciii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"DAY XCIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life<\/em> (\u00a92009) by Gail Blanke is written in a breezy, informal, almost stream-of-consciousness style that ultimately begins to feel rather forced and disingenuous. She totally lost me on page 171 with, &#8220;I hadn&#8217;t heard back form a financial institution about whether or not they were sending me to Dubai to give an important speech to some of their most valued people in the Asia Pacific Rim.&#8221; Nevertheless, I slogged through the book to the end, wading knee-deep through the author&#8217;s gloating anecdotes about winning a regional swimming competition at age 12, ibeing the manager of special promotions for the New York Yankees at the age of twenty-four (<em>&#8220;Yup. The only woman in Major League Baseball with what they called a front-office job&#8221;<\/em>) and appearing on the <em>Oprah Winfrey Show<\/em>. Oh, and in case you&#8217;re wondering, of <em>course<\/em> she got the Dubai gig. The brief sections on &#8220;re-inventing yourself&#8221; were nominally interesting, but beyond that, I found the book lacking in helpful advice and I found little in the examples and anecdotes to which I could relate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life (\u00a92009) by Gail Blanke is written in a breezy, informal, almost stream-of-consciousness style that ultimately begins to feel rather forced and disingenuous. She totally lost me on page 171 with, &#8220;I hadn&#8217;t heard back form a financial institution about whether or not they were sending &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DAY XCIII<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[2,31,12,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}