{"id":119,"date":"2012-11-09T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/595.b.hostable.me\/suddenimpulse\/?p=119"},"modified":"2012-12-20T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T07:40:38","slug":"growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geraldchow.com\/suddenimpulse\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldchow.com\/suddenimpulse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/qualitative-growth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geraldchow.com\/suddenimpulse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/qualitative-growth-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Growth\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Growth<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n So the last time I posted, I was frustrated because it was a time of trials, and it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m out of the woods just yet. However, I&#8217;ve gained quite a bit of confidence lately, mostly due to the fact that I&#8217;ve been told that I&#8217;ve matured!<\/p>\n<p>So I can only say that the trials I&#8217;ve gone through have made me grow up to a higher level. I believe it was all for a good reason and while I may not have &#8220;arrived&#8221;, I know at least that I have progressed! That is reason enough to celebrate!<\/p>\n<p>Growth is always a sticky point. I don&#8217;t ever want to stop, but it also means I can&#8217;t stop feeling uncomfortable and keep pushing my own limits. Still it feels good to be going up a level, and one of the greatest feelings to me is looking back and seeing how far I&#8217;ve come. It&#8217;s a real ego booster!<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t stop growing, striving, changing&#8230; Did I mention it should be easy? Not easy because there aren&#8217;t many bumps along the way, but easy because He will make sure it happens, so just enjoy the show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the last time I posted, I was frustrated because it was a time of trials, and it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m out of the woods just yet. However, I&#8217;ve gained quite a bit of confidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","tag-maturity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s93o4n-growth","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geraldchow.com\/suddenimpulse\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geraldchow.com\/suddenimpulse\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geraldchow.com\/suddenimpulse\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geraldchow.com\/suddenimpulse\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geraldchow.com\/suddenimpulse\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.geraldchow.com\/suddenimpulse\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/www.geraldchow.com\/suddenimpulse\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geraldchow.com\/suddenimpulse\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geraldchow.com\/suddenimpulse\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geraldchow.com\/suddenimpulse\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}