{"id":710,"date":"2018-01-08T03:02:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T03:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/wordpress\/?p=710"},"modified":"2018-01-09T03:03:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T03:03:38","slug":"read-grow-live-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/read-grow-live-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Read, Grow, Live Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe strongly in reading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Twain said,<br \/>\n<strong>The man who does not\u00a0read\u00a0good books <\/strong>has no advantage over the man\u00a0who can&#8217;t\u00a0read\u00a0them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That is pretty powerful!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If that isn&#8217;t enough, here is something else to encourage you to read more this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/worldeconomicforum\/videos\/10154530969881479\/\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Are you reading and pushing yourself? Better yet, are you learning and applying? There is<br \/>\nvery little growth when you don&#8217;t apply things you learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe strongly in reading. &nbsp; Mark Twain said, The man who does not\u00a0read\u00a0good books has no advantage over the man\u00a0who can&#8217;t\u00a0read\u00a0them. &nbsp; That is pretty powerful! &nbsp; If that isn&#8217;t enough, here is something else to encourage you to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/read-grow-live-longer\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educational","category-inspirational","category-resource-for-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jan-8-2018-L.A.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5khoZ-bs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}