{"id":4823,"date":"2018-01-28T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T13:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/28\/two-measures-of-personal-success\/"},"modified":"2018-01-28T13:14:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T13:14:06","slug":"two-measures-of-personal-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/28\/two-measures-of-personal-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Measures of Personal Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">One measure of success is how far you&#39;ve gotten, and the other is how far you&#39;ve come.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The second is the better measure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">On the occasions when you feel you haven&#39;t gotten very far in life, tell yourself, &quot;But look where you started from, and what you had to work with, and the obstacles you had to overcome.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One measure of success is how far you&#39;ve gotten, and the other is how far you&#39;ve come.&#0160; The second is the better measure. On the occasions when you feel you haven&#39;t gotten very far in life, tell yourself, &quot;But look where you started from, and what you had to work with, and the obstacles you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/28\/two-measures-of-personal-success\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Measures of Personal Success&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,316,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness","category-maxims-mottoes-epitaphs-etc","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}