{"id":1222,"date":"2017-06-28T11:26:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2017-06-28T11:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:26:34","slug":"do-you-think-youre-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"Do you think you&#8217;re special?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about being special. We grow up learning that we&#8217;re special. We&#8217;re unique. There&#8217;s no one else out there like us. Then we learn that that really just means we&#8217;re like everyone else. Isn&#8217;t everyone special, we think. We get complacent, we don&#8217;t fight for the things we really want&#8230; the things that actually make us special. We conform and act like the non-special adults who comply and never ask for more. But why? Where does that get us? A boring life we&#8217;re not impressed with? Does thinking we&#8217;re special really vilify us? Why can&#8217;t we think we&#8217;re special?<\/p>\n<p>So I ask: Are you not an adult if you think you&#8217;re special? Are you a selfish child who thinks the world should be handed to him\/her if you think this? Or, are you just working toward something that you consider tougher, more rewarding, and when you get it, you think that you&#8217;re special? You got everything you ever wanted&#8230; because you&#8217;re special, and also, lets be honest, quite hardworking and devoted. I choose to believe the latter.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m special. I am hardworking and devoted to my craft. I have to believe that I am special. It&#8217;s what gets me through life. And maybe that makes me less of an adult. But, honestly, I couldn&#8217;t care less. Be you. Be special, and achieve those things only &#8220;special&#8221; people can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about being special. We grow up learning that we&#8217;re special. We&#8217;re unique. There&#8217;s no one else out there like us. Then we learn that that really just means we&#8217;re like everyone else. Isn&#8217;t everyone special, we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1222\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}