{"id":12696,"date":"2025-11-15T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=12696"},"modified":"2025-11-15T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:24:09","slug":"12696","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2025\/11\/15\/12696\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:306,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.oliverburkeman.com\\\/meditationsformortals&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260123102905\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.oliverburkeman.com\\\/meditationsformortals&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-03 19:26:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-08 14:44:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 00:46:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-15 06:50:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-20 18:06:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-24 05:51:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-27 20:45:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 12:49:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 09:04:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 16:48:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 19:53:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 21:48:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 15:52:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 09:14:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 17:21:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 02:38:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 09:52:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 21:48:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 18:21:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-07 11:36:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-11 18:21:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-17 10:02:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-20 22:57:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-26 02:45:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-29 08:10:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-03 14:22:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-11 09:02:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-20 04:20:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-23 15:47:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-07 21:43:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-07 21:43:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n<p>\ud83d\udcda Finished reading <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverburkeman.com\/meditationsformortals\" title=\"Oliver Burkeman: Meditations for Mortals\">Meditations for Mortals<\/a><\/em> by Oliver Burkeman. A friend suggested I pick this up; I\u2019m glad I did, as it contains snippets of wisdom that I needed to hear. I love the idea of treating my reading pile \u201clike a river, not a bucket\u201d and my to-do list as a menu. The saying that \u2018there\u2019s no time like the present\u2019 is literally true \u2014 the present is <em>all<\/em> there is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/55A15694-7F49-4BB2-AAC1-CC18BBD8E2CE.png\" class=\"wp-image-12695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/55A15694-7F49-4BB2-AAC1-CC18BBD8E2CE.png 1200w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/55A15694-7F49-4BB2-AAC1-CC18BBD8E2CE-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/55A15694-7F49-4BB2-AAC1-CC18BBD8E2CE-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/55A15694-7F49-4BB2-AAC1-CC18BBD8E2CE-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/55A15694-7F49-4BB2-AAC1-CC18BBD8E2CE-700x394.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2025\/11\/15\/12696\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to \"><div class='e-content p-summary'>\ud83d\udcda Finished reading Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. A friend suggested I pick this up; I\u2019m glad I did, as it contains snippets of wisdom that I needed to hear. I love the idea of treating my reading pile \u201clike a river, not a bucket\u201d and my to-do list as a menu. The saying [&hellip;]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3931,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2018\/01\/25\/3931\/","url_meta":{"origin":12696,"position":0},"title":"You buy the kids a\u2026","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"25 January 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"You buy the kids a nice new present and all they want is the cardboard box.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Snippets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Snippets","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/category\/snippets\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1516901928.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1516901928.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1516901928.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1516901928.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1516901928.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4976,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2019\/01\/03\/4976\/","url_meta":{"origin":12696,"position":1},"title":"This is incredible. 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