{"id":3635,"date":"2015-04-12T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T19:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2015-04-12T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T19:53:20","slug":"how-to-do-something-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2015\/04\/how-to-do-something-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"How to do something hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard it called an engine. That thing inside me that keeps me moving towards a goal.<\/p>\n<p>People ask me &#8220;How do you find time?&#8221;<br \/>\nIt confuses me. It&#8217;s not a matter of time. It&#8217;s a matter of wanting to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Take reading a book. I love reading books. Easy books are fun. But then there are the hard books. Those are the challenge. And by challenge I mean FUN.<\/p>\n<p>My husband likes to climb mountains. That&#8217;s good. That&#8217;s his thing. Me? I like to challenge myself to finish Ulysses. THAT felt amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Because it was an experience I wanted to have. I wanted to read it and I wanted to have read it.<\/p>\n<p>So I did it. I read it everytime I had any spare minute. Because I loved it and because i wanted it.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing with my books. And my blog.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe in procrastination. If I am not doing something I want to do, it&#8217;s not a fault. There is something else getting in the way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard it called an engine. That thing inside me that keeps me moving towards a goal. People ask me &#8220;How do you find time?&#8221; It confuses me. It&#8217;s not a matter of time. It&#8217;s a matter of wanting to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2015\/04\/how-to-do-something-hard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3636,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}