{"id":2565,"date":"2026-06-08T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2026-06-06T07:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:54:54","slug":"one-minute-of-your-time-please-348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/?p=2565","title":{"rendered":"One Minute of Your Time Please"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People of a certain age will remember the great Yogi Berra.  The legendary New York Yankees catcher and manager was even more famous for his many paradoxical quotes, such as &#8220;Nobody goes there anymore.  It&#8217;s too crowded,&#8221; and &#8220;It gets late early out there&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my favorite Yogi-isms is &#8220;When you come to a fork in the road, take it.&#8221;  Somehow, I understand exactly what he was trying to say.  Life will bring you to many critical decisions, usually between right and wrong.  You can&#8217;t just remain at the fork.  You must choose.  Live a righteous life, or a less disciplined one.  At these times we must be bold.  We must take action with courage of conviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will face decisions like this every day.  As Yogi would say, it will be &#8220;deja vu all over again&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People of a certain age will remember the great Yogi Berra. The legendary New York Yankees catcher and manager was even more famous for his many paradoxical quotes, such as &#8220;Nobody goes there anymore. It&#8217;s too crowded,&#8221; and &#8220;It gets late early out there&#8221;. One of my favorite Yogi-isms is &#8220;When you come to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/?p=2565\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Minute of Your Time Please<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kenlassblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/create-an-image-of-a-man-standing-on-a-dirt.png?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7GXkt-Fn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenlassblog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}