{"id":491,"date":"2020-07-14T06:47:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T14:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2020-07-14T06:47:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T14:47:14","slug":"how-to-have-the-best-moment-of-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/14\/how-to-have-the-best-moment-of-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How to have the best moment of your life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After Eliud Kipchoge broke the world record and ran a marathon in under 2 hours, he said, \u201cThat was the best moment of my life.&#8221; That probably didn\u2019t come as a surprise to him. It was a big goal that he had been working towards for a long time, so the fact that achieving that goal was the best moment of his life was probably to be expected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contrast that with winning the lottery. If that were the best moment of someone\u2019s life, they would have arrived at it completely differently\u2014by placing a bad bet and getting lucky.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s much easier to have the best moment of your life through hard work and things you can control than by wishing and hoping and waiting for the moon to fall in your lap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Eliud Kipchoge broke the world record and ran a marathon in under 2 hours, he said, \u201cThat was the best moment of my life.&#8221; That probably didn\u2019t come as a surprise to him. It was a big goal that he had been working towards for a long time, so the fact that achieving that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/14\/how-to-have-the-best-moment-of-your-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to have the best moment of your life&#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-491","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\/491","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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}