{"id":3150,"date":"2025-02-06T22:56:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2025-02-09T19:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T19:46:27","slug":"apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/6766f4022dc5d9b993aeca62\/67a536c0340a5590cd722e1e\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A reader has taken me to task for the \u201cgloaty tone\u201d of the last post which launched my ADHD MLM book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I did wonder whether I should add it to the blog or just leave it as a personal Facebook post &#8211; after all, it hasn\u2019t got much to do with sailing. But then, one of the most common traits of ADHD is the total disregard for other people\u2019s feelings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, apologies for that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, the reader was confused about my various sources of income &#8211; and since another symptom is \u201ca compulsion to share inappropriate personal details\u201d I can tell you that by far the largest slice comes from Network Marketing which is why I take the opportunity to mention it whenever the occasion arises.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Also, of course, I get something from the books, and the food supplement which is not Network Marketing but Affiliate Marketing (you can look up the difference) &#8211; \u00a0and we mustn\u2019t forget my dear little UK Old Age Pension\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, as you might imagine, it does make sense to plug whatever is appropriate &#8211; as long as I don\u2019t do it too often. The thing that I find really offensive is those people (YouTubers mostly) who refuse to talk to anyone or to answer emails from people who don\u2019t pay into their Patreon account every month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hope I shall never be reduced to that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, as you may have read in my Faster, Louder, Riskier, Sexier book, I do have to make up the \u00a3342,500 I lost by being too bored to read a contract. Anyway, I regard having to work as good for the soul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, here I am on my way back to the San Blas islands and so far I have met an American who has been there for five years and a German who claims he has not left the islands &#8211; not even for a day &#8211; in the last eight! I know there are said to be 365 of them, but they are all packed into an area 30 miles by 10. That doesn\u2019t sound much like cruising under sail to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So instead, I am planning a trip of 15,000 miles. There will be nine stops and I reckon I can get three \u201cVoyage\u201d books out of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I won\u2019t say any more about that now &#8211; I might change my mind about the itinerary. Afterwards, I could spend a year in the San Blas to recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader has taken me to task for the \u201cgloaty tone\u201d of the last post which launched my ADHD MLM book. I did wonder whether I should add it to the blog or just leave it as a personal Facebook post &#8211; after all, it hasn\u2019t got much to do with sailing. But then, one &#8230; <a title=\"Apologies\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/apologies\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Apologies\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}