{"id":919,"date":"2014-05-20T12:22:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=919"},"modified":"2014-05-20T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T19:22:15","slug":"perseverance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about perseverance. I&#8217;ve heard that life is about perseverance. That is, unless you&#8217;re lucky enough to have parents in the same field in which you&#8217;re planning to pursue. Then, well, life comes much simpler. But for most of us, we have to work hard. We have to fight for what we want. And it&#8217;s damn difficult. And sometimes, I just want to give up, as I&#8217;m sure most of us do. But I can&#8217;t. I have to persevere. I can&#8217;t imagine life without my dreams. What is life without dreams? Nothing, really. So this is what I suggest to anyone who feels like giving up: persevere. Your dreams can be achieved. Follow your dreams without hesitation and never look back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about perseverance. I&#8217;ve heard that life is about perseverance. That is, unless you&#8217;re lucky enough to have parents in the same field in which you&#8217;re planning to pursue. Then, well, life comes much simpler. But for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=919\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":837,"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\/919"}],"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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}