{"id":804,"date":"2012-08-08T03:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/?p=804"},"modified":"2014-02-09T15:12:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T20:12:36","slug":"it-matters-how-you-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/2012\/08\/08\/it-matters-how-you-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"It matters how you finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #1c827a;\">Try again &#8211; &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"color: #1c827a;\">Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.<\/span><span style=\"color: #1c827a;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/strong>*<\/p>\n<p>Instead of wondering on this Wondering Wednesday, I&#8217;m going to show you a Wonder.\u00a0 Check out this video of motivational speaker, Nick Vujicic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"It matters HOW you are going to FINISH\" width=\"565\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_t_0kT8kYvc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How many of us get a rejection letter and give up?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<em>Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.<\/em>&#8220;&#8211; Calvin Coolidge<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you want to get that play or novel out of the drawer and try again?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try again &#8211; &#8220;Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.&#8220;* Instead of wondering on this Wondering Wednesday, I&#8217;m going to show you a Wonder.\u00a0 Check out this video of motivational speaker, Nick Vujicic. &nbsp; How many of us get a rejection letter and give up? &#8220;Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[79,139,140,141],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-wondering-wednesdays","tag-nick-vujicic","tag-persistence","tag-coping-with-rejection","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}