{"id":2337,"date":"2021-06-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:21:13","slug":"remember-to-touch-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/10\/remember-to-touch-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember to touch base"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A few months ago, picking up an old-new notebook from my stock of pillaged office stationery, I was surprised by my own handwritten quotation on the first page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Remember to touch base. Base is where you were before you became lost. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I copied it onto a Post-It that is now stuck on my monitor, but I didn’t look for its source until today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It actually comes from The Rules of Life<\/em><\/a> by Richard Templar. I read this book in 2004 during a phase of self-improvement although I don’t remember being impressed by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe it was prescient that I wrote dwon this particular ‘rule’ then only for me to find it now when the advice seems much needed. Coincidentally, last week whilst rummaging through boxes in the attic, I held the book in my hands, considering whether to read it again before putting it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, picking up an old-new notebook from my stock of pillaged office stationery, I was surprised by my own handwritten quotation on the first page. Remember to touch base. Base is where you were before you became lost. I copied it onto a Post-It that is now stuck on my monitor, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-BH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5148,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions\/5148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}