{"id":1924,"date":"2012-05-30T16:56:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T00:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2012-05-30T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T00:56:11","slug":"genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/genes\/","title":{"rendered":"Genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My siblings and I refer to it as the &#8220;Choy gene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When we lack confidence, when we get complacent, when we feel nervous about upcoming events for no good reason, we say it&#8217;s the Choy gene, on my mom&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>This gene of pessimism and fear is something I have to consciously overcome. It&#8217;s a mental weakness that makes me feel like quitting and shy away from adventure. I can&#8217;t handle emergencies and hardship. I have to remind myself: I don&#8217;t want to be like that. I can be better. I am not ruled by my genes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My siblings and I refer to it as the &#8220;Choy gene.&#8221; When we lack confidence, when we get complacent, when we feel nervous about upcoming events for no good reason, we say it&#8217;s the Choy gene, on my mom&#8217;s side. This gene of pessimism and fear is something I have to consciously overcome. It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-on-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}