{"id":1017,"date":"2006-03-02T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T14:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2006\/03\/02\/spring-is-coming\/"},"modified":"2006-03-02T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T14:58:31","slug":"spring-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2006\/03\/spring-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is Coming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif\" size=2>On March 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, I will finish my 47<sup>th<\/sup> lap around the calendar. This was a significant year for me. I experienced many personal and professional challenges and a lot of unexpected successes. In many ways, this was one of both my worst and my best years in a very long time. I nearly gave up on some things that were important to me, because the struggle was getting too difficult to cope with. But, something deep within me said \u201cdon\u2019t give up\u2026 you can do this!\u201d. I\u2019m so glad I listened.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=Helvetica size=2><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=2>\u00a0<\/font><\/font><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font face=\"Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif\" size=2>So, why do I share this personal insight with you now? Well, because the most important things I learned last year are that working to make things better in my community makes me really happy and that perseverance and belief in yourself can assist you in accomplishing things you never thought possible.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 23rd, I will finish my 47th lap around the calendar. This was a significant year for me. I experienced many personal and professional<\/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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-gp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}