{"id":1500,"date":"2014-02-07T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2014-02-09T10:02:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T18:02:26","slug":"this-is-brilliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/?p=1500","title":{"rendered":"This. Is. BRILLIANT."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"626\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RcGyVTAoXEU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering about this for years&#8230;.how to handle stress, and why is it that none of the stress &#8220;handling&#8221; techniques seemed to ever work for me&#8230;.and I was coming to the conclusion that my innate reaction to a challenge, which is to rise up to it with a kinda &#8220;fuck you, you&#8217;re not going to own ME&#8221; type reaction, was instead of a poor response to stress, maybe the best thing I could do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Even after roughly 40 years of playing in front of audiences varying in size from 1 person to around 85,000 in person, and many millions on live tv a coupla times, I STILL can and do sometimes get nervous, and lately I&#8217;ve become aware that I kind of like that&#8230;.and I look forward to that moment before you go out and the lights go on, and my body ramps up for all that&#8217;s about to be required of me, and I get to prove I CAN own it and bring some game&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So I agree wholeheartedly with this woman&#8217;s summation of some of the recent studies about stress, and in fact I&#8217;m going to use these thoughts to further my own reaction to stress in every way I can&#8230;.I think this information is extremely useful and important to us all&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>BTW, if there&#8217;s anything hotter than a smart woman, I&#8217;m not sure I know what it is&#8230;.yes she&#8217;d be hot anyway, but with a good mind, oh man! (Except for those pants&#8230;.gotta do something about the pants&#8230;.) I&#8217;ve gone out with some very smart women who hid it with weird giddy behavior and other ways of kinda masking their innate and strong intelligence &#8211; DON&#8217;T DO IT!! Smart is hot, at least to smart guys&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering about this for years&#8230;.how to handle stress, and why is it that none of the stress &#8220;handling&#8221; techniques seemed to ever work for me&#8230;.and I was coming to the conclusion that my innate reaction to a challenge, which is to rise up to it with a kinda &#8220;fuck you, you&#8217;re not going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":1501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,1],"tags":[423,420,351,421,422,418,419,417,424,416,425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}