{"id":460,"date":"2020-06-30T19:56:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T03:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2020-06-30T19:56:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T03:56:36","slug":"the-halfway-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/the-halfway-point\/","title":{"rendered":"The halfway point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My New Year\u2019s resolution this year was to start a blog and write a post everyday for a year. There have been several times in the past 6 months when I questioned whether it was worth it, but like many things, it feels easier to finish once you reach the halfway point. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t so bad, I think I could do that again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we\u2019re only a quarter of the way done, perhaps we should think of that as being halfway to halfway done.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Half full or half empty, one quarter full or three quarters empty, the trick to being an optimist is to focus on the water, not the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs you ramble on through life, Brother,<br>Whatever be your goal,<br>Keep your eye upon the doughnut,<br>And not upon the hole.\u201d<br>\u2014Margaret Atwood  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019d like to subscribe to the blog and get the posts daily by email, you can subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/\">http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/<\/a> If you\u2019re only seeing these on Facebook, then you\u2019re probably missing some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My New Year\u2019s resolution this year was to start a blog and write a post everyday for a year. There have been several times in the past 6 months when I questioned whether it was worth it, but like many things, it feels easier to finish once you reach the halfway point. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/the-halfway-point\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The halfway point&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}