{"id":461,"date":"2012-05-31T13:27:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T13:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeservis.com\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2012-05-31T13:27:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T13:27:57","slug":"life-as-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/life-as-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Life as it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikeservis.com\/images\/life.png?w=640\" alt=\"life is as it is\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Life as it is<br \/>\n+++++++++++++++++++<\/p>\n<p>Life is not lived in some far-off, imagined land of someday<br \/>\nwhere everything is perfect. It is lived here and now, with<br \/>\nthe reality of the way things are.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, by all means you can work toward an idealized<br \/>\nexistence. Yet to do so, you must successfully deal with the<br \/>\nworld as it is.<\/p>\n<p>That, in fact, is much of what gives life its richness. Even<br \/>\nthough your present circumstances are less than ideal, you<br \/>\ncan nonetheless prevail and prosper.<\/p>\n<p>The real and present difficulties never have to give you a<br \/>\nreason to give up. On the contrary, they provide you with a<br \/>\nclearly defined path for moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>If everything was already perfect, there would be no<br \/>\nopportunity to make improvements. There would be no way to<br \/>\nenjoy the profound satisfaction of making a positive<br \/>\ndifference.<\/p>\n<p>Enthusiastically embrace life as it is, with all the ups and<br \/>\ndowns. For within the context of life as it is you can make<br \/>\nit truly outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Marston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life as it is +++++++++++++++++++ Life is not lived in some far-off, imagined land of someday where everything is perfect. It is lived here and now, with the reality of the way things are. Yes, by all means you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/life-as-it-is\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SD9H-7r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}