{"id":7122,"date":"2005-02-10T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegrrl.com\/2005\/02\/7122\/"},"modified":"2005-02-10T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T08:23:00","slug":"optimist-stays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2005\/optimist-stays\/","title":{"rendered":"An Optimist Stays Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Start by doing what&#8217;s necessary; then do what&#8217;s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.<br>\n~St. Francis of Assisi<\/p>\n<p>Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.<br>\n~Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n<p>Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.<br>\n~Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.<br>\n~Bill Vaughn<\/p>\n<p>Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.<br>\n~Aristotle<\/p>\n<p>The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one&#8217;s &#8220;own&#8221; or &#8220;real&#8221; life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one&#8217;s life.<br>\n~C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n<p>A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.<br>\n~Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.<br>\n~Albert Einstein<\/p>\n<p>Always do sober what you said you&#8217;d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.<br>\n~Ernest Hemmingway<\/p>\n<p>No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy.<br>\n~Knights of Pythagoras<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2005\/optimist-stays\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to An Optimist Stays Up\"><p>Start by doing what&#8217;s necessary; then do what&#8217;s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ~St. Francis of Assisi Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ~Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[951],"tags":[1127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}