{"id":1950,"date":"2015-08-11T07:34:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T23:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2015-08-11T07:34:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T23:34:53","slug":"winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/08\/11\/winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

I enjoy winning. I am competitive by nature.<\/p>\n

The trouble starts when winning becomes the focus.<\/p>\n

To be honest, for me the trouble starts when winning becomes everything. Winning for the sake of winning, I describe as the ultimate step. <\/p>\n

Especially when I am in a room full of other people who are winners, or think they are winners.<\/p>\n

Damage happens. I know the masochistic irony of what it is like to win, and lose, simultaneously. In private, as I tally the losses, my self-loathing grows.<\/p>\n

Yes, in my case it is a sickness. My doctor has diagnosed \u2018Auction Fever.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Guest Contributor Barry O’Farrell<\/a><\/p>\n

Barry is an actor living in Brisbane, Australia. Barry’s other stories may be found at Cyclamens & Swords, 50 Word Stories, 101 Words, and of course here at A Story In 100 Words.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I enjoy winning. I am competitive by nature. The trouble starts when winning becomes the focus. To be honest, for me the trouble starts when winning becomes everything. Winning for the sake of winning, I describe as the ultimate step. Especially when I am in a room full of other people who are winners, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3928,2978,3917,3922,1082,3921,2566,3919,41,3920,1997,3923,3744,1244,3925,3926,3927,3918,3924,3916],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-auction","tag-barry-ofarrell","tag-competitive","tag-damage","tag-doctor","tag-everything","tag-fever","tag-focus","tag-guest-contributor","tag-honest","tag-irony","tag-lose","tag-nature","tag-people","tag-private","tag-self-loathing","tag-sickness","tag-trouble","tag-win","tag-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}