{"id":26565,"date":"2024-09-06T16:41:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=26565"},"modified":"2024-09-06T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:50:19","slug":"how-to-cope-with-being-absolutely-terrible-at-a-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/09\/06\/how-to-cope-with-being-absolutely-terrible-at-a-subject\/","title":{"rendered":"How to cope with being absolutely terrible at a subject"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/aw090625-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/aw090625-2.jpg\" alt=\"How to cope with being absolutely terrible at a subject \ud83d\udc31\" class=\"wp-image-26563\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How to cope with being absolutely terrible at a subject \ud83d\udc31<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sigh&#8230; I&#8217;ve long been bedeviled by being in absolute last place in the Boston Marathon (I entered in 1985 and still haven&#8217;t even started!) so I get it. A wall will never break speed records. If it&#8217;s something you love, do it anyway, but don&#8217;t stake an income (or perhaps grades) on it. If you don&#8217;t love it, let it go and admire those who are good at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh&#8230; I&#8217;ve long been bedeviled by being in absolute last place in the Boston Marathon (I entered in 1985 and still haven&#8217;t even started!) so I get it. A wall will never break speed records. If it&#8217;s something you love, do it anyway, but don&#8217;t stake an income (or perhaps grades) on it. If you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/09\/06\/how-to-cope-with-being-absolutely-terrible-at-a-subject\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to cope with being absolutely terrible at a subject&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26569,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26565\/revisions\/26569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}