{"id":3249,"date":"2020-05-20T19:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T00:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2020-05-26T09:13:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T14:13:50","slug":"i-am-ben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/20\/i-am-ben\/","title":{"rendered":"I am Ben"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a Scorpio who has defeated his jealousy.<br \/>I am a people loving introvert who is great at playing extrovert.<br \/>I am a lover of animals and doesn&#8217;t want a pet.<br \/>I am a lover of a good thunderstorm, warm summer rain or cool fall breeze.<br \/>I am computer and anime nerd who craves sleeping under the stars, hiking, walking, camping, and all the other amazing things that are the outdoors.<br \/>I am a seeker of truth in search of his own.<br \/>I am an avocado loving vegan who believes that the best way is usually the natural way.<br \/>I am a father to two, daddy to 6, and owner of none.<br \/>I am a friend to many and lover of one.<br \/>I am ignorant of much with a ton of knowledge of how to learn.<br \/>I am always ready for a new adventure and even more ready for the adventure that awaits me when I return home.<br \/>I am a man of regrets that continues to shrink in comparison to the growing list of things I&#8217;m proud of.<br \/>I am constantly growing while learning not to forget where I started.<br \/>I am progressing toward a better me while forgiving my missteps.<br \/>I am a sucker for a good story all the while living my favorite one.<br \/>I am a man who can feed off the energy of others and let my own peacefully dissipate when alone.<br \/>I am a man who loves hard and fast when the feeling is right.<br \/>I am a man who doesn&#8217;t waste his time on things that don&#8217;t matter but will fixate on something that perplexes him.<br \/>I am a man who listens to the council of others but trusts his gut when it&#8217;s time.<br \/>I am a lover of hard work and the extra pleasure gained from it when at play.<br \/>I am an obsessive thinker who knows when not to.<br \/>I am very slow to anger but very quick to action.<br \/>I am a busy man who loves a break because I know that no matter what I will likely die with a ton of projects still on my desk.<br \/>I am enthralled by the thought of human potential while I continue to explore my own.<br \/>I am a lot of things:<br \/>a son, a father, a friend, a confidant, an engineer, a philosopher, a safe space, a helping hand, a kick in the ass, an asshole, a hermit, a loner, a people person, a man of action, a ponderer, a lover, and a wanderer.<br \/>I am me.<br \/>I am Ben.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/00100srPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20200418170341602_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3251\"\/><figcaption>Ben + Hammock = Happy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Scorpio who has defeated his jealousy.I am a people loving introvert who is great at playing extrovert.I am a lover of animals and doesn&#8217;t want a pet.I am a lover of a good thunderstorm, warm summer rain or cool fall breeze.I am computer and anime nerd who craves sleeping under the stars, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-benji","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}