{"id":716,"date":"2018-01-15T03:21:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T03:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/wordpress\/?p=716"},"modified":"2018-01-09T03:22:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T03:22:06","slug":"are-you-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/are-you-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Growing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new year, with new goals. Yippee, growth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I rarely read books twice, but I would like to share a book that I not only read twice, but I<br \/>\nread it three times. On top of that, my husband and I discuss this book frequently because<br \/>\nit is thought-provoking. It seems to come up in our conversations every couple of months,<br \/>\nyet we read the book for the first time eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The book is called, Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl\/dp\/080701429X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1508599228&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=man%27s+search+for+meaning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-717\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mans-search-for-meaning.jpg?resize=282%2C498\" alt=\"Mans search for meaning\" width=\"282\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mans-search-for-meaning.jpg?w=282&amp;ssl=1 282w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mans-search-for-meaning.jpg?resize=170%2C300&amp;ssl=1 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can go directly to it, by clicking the book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How is your attitude helping or hurting you?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can read Proverbs 23:7, which says, for as he thinks in his heart, so is he&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new year, with new goals. Yippee, growth. &nbsp; I rarely read books twice, but I would like to share a book that I not only read twice, but I read it three times. On top of that, my husband &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/are-you-growing\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":720,"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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jan-15-2018-L.A.James-Are-You-Growing.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5khoZ-by","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}