{"id":249,"date":"2012-03-25T12:13:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T19:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2012-03-25T12:13:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T19:13:41","slug":"aspirations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Aspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about high aspirations. We set short-term and long-term goals every day. We aspire to be more than we are. But we must also realize that our goals aren\u2019t always in reach instantly; that shouldn\u2019t stop us from believing and dreaming. There\u2019s this quote by Louisa May Alcott that I love: \u201cFar away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them.\u201d So do this: follow your heart, set your aspirations high. You never know when you\u2019re going to reach them, but you can always follow them. Someday, those dreams will come true if you follow them long enough. Never give up on your goals, no matter how out of reach they may seem sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about high aspirations. We set short-term and long-term goals every day. We aspire to be more than we are. But we must also realize that our goals aren\u2019t always in reach instantly; that shouldn\u2019t stop us &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=249\">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\/249"}],"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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"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=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}