{"id":295,"date":"2012-04-26T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T18:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2012-04-26T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T18:03:13","slug":"worth-the-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Worth the wait"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got to thinking about patience. Why is this world so impatient? Why must we all seek instant gratification? Isn\u2019t anticipation worth the wait for something spectacular? Impatience is all around us. And we accept that. But we shouldn\u2019t. Patience is a virtue for a reason. Patience won\u2019t necessarily get you what you want, but it definitely will ease your mind. I\u2019ve learned that waiting for something is the best option for many reasons. I have a clear mind, and I know that something great out there is waiting for me. If you\u2019re patient, great things will come. Maybe not tomorrow or the next day, but eventually. And that\u2019s certainly worth the wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got to thinking about patience. Why is this world so impatient? Why must we all seek instant gratification? Isn\u2019t anticipation worth the wait for something spectacular? Impatience is all around us. And we accept that. But we shouldn\u2019t. Patience … Continue reading →<\/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\/295"}],"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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/296"}],"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=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}