{"id":54,"date":"2005-09-09T22:06:27","date_gmt":"2005-09-10T05:06:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-09-16T14:43:21","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T14:43:21","slug":"a_lesson_in_optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2005\/a_lesson_in_optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson in Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 21 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p>I&#8217;ve noticed that whenever I need work, whenever I&#8217;m silently or outwardly asking myself or the world around me to bring me projects, they come.  My mother used to always say, &#8220;Knock and the door will open unto you.  Ask and you shall receive.&#8221;  (I think this is biblical.)I believe it.  Just by consciously <i>thinking<\/i> that you need something, you&#8217;ll be more aware of the opportunities around you, and you&#8217;ll eventually find it.  Somewhere.  Somehow.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 21 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.I&#8217;ve noticed that whenever I need work, whenever I&#8217;m silently or outwardly asking myself or the world around me to bring me projects, they come. My mother used to always say, &#8220;Knock and the door will open unto you. Ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}