{"id":58844,"date":"2025-03-17T14:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T03:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=58844"},"modified":"2025-03-17T14:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T03:05:20","slug":"58844","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58844","title":{"rendered":"Choose Your Own Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Choose_Your_Own_Path.jpg\" alt=\"Choose Your Own Path\" width=\"526\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Choose_Your_Own_Path.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Choose_Your_Own_Path-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most people follow the path that\u2019s already been laid out for them never questioning, never thinking, just walking in line like everyone else. Then you have the people the ones who see things differently, think outside the box, and aren\u2019t afraid to break away from the crowd. The funniest part? The masses don\u2019t admire them; they get annoyed, just like in this comic. Instead of realizing he\u2019s found a better, more efficient way, they roll their eyes and keep walking the long way around. This is exactly how the world works people mock what they don\u2019t understand, until one day, they realize those \u201cweird\u201d thinkers were actually right all along. Moral of the story? Dare to be different, challenge the norm, and take the path that actually makes sense even if people don\u2019t get it yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people follow the path that\u2019s already been laid out for them never questioning, never thinking, just walking in line like everyone else. Then you have the people the ones who see things differently, think outside the box, and aren\u2019t afraid to break away from the crowd. The funniest part? The masses don\u2019t admire them; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58844\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Choose Your Own Path&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58847,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58844\/revisions\/58847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}