{"id":5337,"date":"2026-06-26T05:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/?p=5337"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:48:45","slug":"the-way-i-am-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/?p=5337","title":{"rendered":"The Way I Am Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m sort of tired of answering my critics. I don&#8217;t know why people think the worst about everything and jump to conclusions. So I have lots of things to say to my critics but I won&#8217;t say too much here. I could write about this for days, but then I would have to focus on myself even more. That&#8217;s the thing about criticism it causes you look inward too much when we just need to look upward. Sometimes I feel like I must answer when I&#8217;m being accused, but I&#8217;m trying too hard, I simply don&#8217;t care anymore, and why should I anyway? It just reminds me that the devil is an accuser and he uses people to achieve his ends. Someone said I&#8217;m making excuses for &#8220;the way I am now&#8221;. Why would I do that? I love who I am now despite my reputation. You may not like the &#8220;way I am now&#8221;, but I like it. I have some weaknesses and flaws, but in general I don&#8217;t think there is anything wrong with &#8220;the way I am now&#8221;. I think I&#8217;m doing quite alright given the circumstances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sort of tired of answering my critics. I don&#8217;t know why people think the worst about everything and jump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BCO.741d1c15-f5c1-41d8-9b4f-3dd73b2bb38e.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5337"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5348,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions\/5348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}