{"id":14080,"date":"2020-01-30T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=14080"},"modified":"2020-01-30T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T16:00:01","slug":"saturday-evening-post-column-life-inertia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/saturday-evening-post-column-life-inertia\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Evening Post column: Life Inertia: Like an Asteroid Hurtling Through Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<em>Saturday Evening Post<\/em> published my latest column, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdayeveningpost.com\/2020\/01\/life-inertia-like-an-asteroid-hurtling-through-space\/\">Life Inertia: Like an Asteroid Hurtling Through Space<\/a>. <\/em>Much like Sir Isaac Newton&#8217;s Law of Inertia (&#8220;A body at rest tends to remain at rest. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. Bodies will continue in their current state, whether at rest or in motion, unless acted on by a greater outside force&#8221;<em>)<\/em>, this column explores my Law of Human Inertia: &#8220;The tendency of people, having once established a life trajectory, to continue on that course unless acted on by a greater force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like an asteroid when it first breaks away from a larger celestial body, great forces \u2014 in our case, genes, parents, community, and society \u2014 are exerted on our lives from inception. People, like asteroids, are set on a path by those early forces and continue on that path throughout their lives, for better or worse, unless other forces are exerted on it that alter their course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Saturday Evening Post published my latest column, Life Inertia: Like an Asteroid Hurtling Through Space. Much like Sir Isaac Newton&#8217;s Law of Inertia (&#8220;A body at rest tends to remain at rest. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. Bodies will continue in their current state, whether at rest or in motion, unless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1533],"tags":[1386,374,381,375],"class_list":["post-14080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saturday-evening-post","tag-life-inertia","tag-personal-growth-2","tag-personal-transformation","tag-self-help"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}