{"id":17833,"date":"2013-02-22T09:36:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T14:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=17833"},"modified":"2013-02-22T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T14:36:18","slug":"worthy-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=17833","title":{"rendered":"Worthy Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning is about making a difference, whether that be with a kind word or a kind thought. It&#8217;s about finding a way to crowd out what is wrong with the world by holding what is right up on a pedestal. The first thing I read this morning was a Facebook post by <a href=\"http:\/\/muddlavoie.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mudd Lavoie<\/a> recognizing a post by Cupcakes and Cauldrons on <a href=\"http:\/\/cauldronsandcupcakes.com\/2013\/02\/21\/the-value-of-encouraging-other-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">encouraging other people<\/a> and that fell right in line with what Tin and I were discussing over breakfast that went something like this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like rain,&#8221; Tin said.<br \/>\n&#8220;I love rain, it greens up the grass and feeds the animals and us, and makes the air seems fresher.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;But it&#8217;s wet,&#8221; Tin said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Rain, rain, go away, come again another day, Constantin wants to play.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Can I rap that song?&#8221; Tin said.<br \/>\n&#8220;How about we give thanks this morning. Let&#8217;s start with TGIF.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Thank God I&#8217;m Fabulous,&#8221; Tin said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Right. And thank god for Ms. Karla, our friends, and our loved ones.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a worthy ambition to get up in the morning and figure out how to make the most of your day and life, by first recognizing all those people that help make your world so wonderful. <\/p>\n<p>Amen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning is about making a difference, whether that be with a kind word or a kind thought. It&#8217;s about finding a way to crowd out what is wrong with the world by holding what is right up on a pedestal. The first thing I read this morning was a Facebook post by Mudd Lavoie recognizing a post by Cupcakes and Cauldrons on encouraging other people and that fell right in line with what Tin&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-4DD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17834,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833\/revisions\/17834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}