{"id":24659,"date":"2016-01-31T18:28:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T02:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24659"},"modified":"2016-01-31T18:28:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T02:28:36","slug":"how-would-you-do-in-supermax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/how-would-you-do-in-supermax\/","title":{"rendered":"How would you do in supermax?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s hope none of us ever have to find out. But it appears the keys to surviving solitary confinement with your sanity intact are <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/32\/space\/how-to-survive-solitary-confinement\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;grit&#8221; and an ability to direct your imagination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the official <a href=\"https:\/\/sasupenn.qualtrics.com\/jfe3\/form\/SV_06f6QSOS2pZW9qR\" target=\"_blank\">grit self-assessment<\/a>. So where do you rate?<\/p>\n<p>Me? Well, directed imagination, I&#8217;ve got. Comes with the writer territory. Grit &#8230; not so much. I think, though, that when people take the grit test they&#8217;re tending to do the &#8220;90 percent of everybody is above average&#8221; variety of evaluation. Sitting at our computers it&#8217;s easy to say, &#8220;Yeah, sure, I never let setbacks discourage me. And I always finish what I start. And diligent, oh yeah, you betcha I&#8217;m <i>the diligentest!<\/i>&#8221; I told the truth about my failings and came out pretty much gritless. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Reality is the only real grit test, of course. And in a pinch, I think sheer pig-stubbornness might suffice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s hope none of us ever have to find out. But it appears the keys to surviving solitary confinement with your sanity intact are &#8220;grit&#8221; and an ability to direct your imagination. Here&#8217;s the official grit self-assessment. So where do you rate? Me? Well, directed imagination, I&#8217;ve got. Comes with the writer territory. Grit &#8230; not so much. I think, though, that when people take the grit test they&#8217;re tending to do the &#8220;90 percent of everybody is above average&#8221; variety of evaluation. Sitting at our computers it&#8217;s easy to say, &#8220;Yeah, sure, I never let setbacks discourage me. And&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/how-would-you-do-in-supermax\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How would you do in supermax?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-and-spirit","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}