{"id":139,"date":"2012-02-09T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2012-02-09T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:43:22","slug":"what-will-you-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"What will you give up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about giving up. There are times when I feel giving up is the best possibility. There won\u2019t be more trials and tribulations once you give up. You\u2019re free of stress. You\u2019re free of problems. But is that really true? I\u2019d like to think it is; it would make our lives that much easier. But it\u2019s completely false. When you\u2019re thinking of giving up, you must remember why you held on so long. Why was this important to you? And will it be important to you if you think back on it two months from now?<br \/>\nI\u2019ve learned that giving up doesn\u2019t solve problems. In fact, giving up exemplifies that you can\u2019t complete a task because it\u2019s too difficult. And who wants to be like that? Where\u2019s the drive in that? I think it\u2019s imperative to be one of those people who refuse to give up, no matter what. When you refuse to give up on your goal or your friend or your job, the end result may not be perfect, but at least you\u2019ll know that you gave it your all. And that\u2019s all anyone can really ask for.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER NEVER GIVE UP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about giving up. There are times when I feel giving up is the best possibility. There won\u2019t be more trials and tribulations once you give up. You\u2019re free of stress. You\u2019re free of problems. But is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"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\/139"}],"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=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}