{"id":1175,"date":"2010-02-22T14:03:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:04:10","slug":"monday-motivation-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2010\/02\/22\/monday-motivation-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Motivation: Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Photo of cake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/cake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"404\" \/>I&#8217;ve decided to reserve Mondays for something motivating to kick off the week.<\/p>\n<p>It may be a quote, an image, a writing challenge, or a post. It&#8217;s always good to begin a new week charged for writing or, at the very least, thinking about writing.<\/p>\n<p>This Monday, it&#8217;s a quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Truman Capote<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It may seem a little strange to kick off the week with a quote about failure, but I love this quote.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I like failing in <em>anything <\/em>I do, but I&#8217;ve come to accept that whether it be juggling, writing, or looking for a new job, I&#8217;m going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2009\/09\/30\/dropping-things\/\">drop things<\/a> and face rejection.<\/p>\n<p>Writers challenge themselves daily&#8211;they don&#8217;t take the easy way out.<\/p>\n<p>Most people give up when things are difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The flavor of success isn&#8217;t so much the feeling of relief that comes with selling writing after repeated failures, but in seeing your hard work finally pay off.<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of hard work ahead of me this week, but I know it will all taste good in the coming weeks, months, and maybe even years.<\/p>\n<p>I hope everybody has a fun and productive week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to reserve Mondays for something motivating to kick off the week. It may be a quote, an image, a writing challenge, or a post. It&#8217;s always good to begin a new week charged for writing or, at the very least, thinking about writing. This Monday, it&#8217;s a quote: &#8220;Failure is the condiment that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}