{"id":149,"date":"2007-10-14T19:55:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T02:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2007\/10\/in-a-hotel-with-half-assed-wifi-my-thoughts-turn-to-f-scott-fitzgerald"},"modified":"2007-10-14T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T02:55:09","slug":"in-a-hotel-with-half-assed-wifi-my-thoughts-turn-to-f-scott-fitzgerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2007\/10\/in-a-hotel-with-half-assed-wifi-my-thoughts-turn-to-f-scott-fitzgerald","title":{"rendered":"in a hotel with half-assed wifi, my thoughts turn to F. Scott Fitzgerald"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apropos of nothing, I have always liked this ever since I read it in the Book of Lists when I was too young to really understand a lot of it. Some of it I still don’t understand. You can read the almost-full letter over at the New York Times<\/a>, and you can read what was elided from that at the original source via Google Books<\/a>. The parts that are removed explain why he is threatening to assault the White Cat and let her know he will “arrange the camp bill”<\/p>\n

Half-wit, I will conclude. Things to worry about:<\/p>\n

Worry about courage
\nWorry about cleanliness
\nWorry about efficiency
\nWorry about horsemanship…<\/p>\n

Things not to worry about:<\/p>\n

Don’t worry about popular opinion
\nDon’t worry about dolls
\nDon’t worry about the past
\nDon’t worry about the future
\nDon’t worry about growing up
\nDon’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you
\nDon’t worry about triumph
\nDon’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault
\nDon’t worry about mosquitoes
\nDon’t worry about flies
\nDon’t worry about insects in general
\nDon’t worry about parents
\nDon’t worry about boys
\nDon’t worry about disappointments
\nDon’t worry about pleasures
\nDon’t worry about satisfactions<\/p>\n

Things to think about:<\/p>\n

What am I really aiming at?<\/p>\n

How good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to:
\n(a) Scholarship
\n(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them?
\n(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful intrument or am I neglecting it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apropos of nothing, I have always liked this ever since I read it in the Book of Lists when I was too young to really understand a lot of it. Some of it I still don’t understand. You can read the almost-full letter over at the New York Times, and you can read what was […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-fitzgerald-worry","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}