{"id":702,"date":"2009-01-09T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/word-of-the-day-optimism\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T17:55:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:55:19","slug":"word-of-the-day-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/word-of-the-day-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:10;\"  >The book talks about an old man who planted an orchard after he retired from his job. He was undaunted even though the people around him said he wouldn&#8217;t live long enough to see it bear fruit.<\/p>\n<p>I think that starting projects that are daunting is the epitomy of optimism and it shows optimism and joy in the process and not just in the end product.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book talks about an old man who planted an orchard after he retired from his job. He was undaunted even though the people around him said he wouldn&#8217;t live long enough to see it bear fruit. I think that starting projects that are daunting is the epitomy of optimism and it shows optimism and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/word-of-the-day-optimism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word of the Day: Optimism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[311,347],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-creativity","tag-word-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}