{"id":1485,"date":"2011-11-24T14:27:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T18:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2011-11-24T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T18:27:35","slug":"giving-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/24\/giving-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving to my US friends and blog readers!<\/p>\n<p>Though up here in Canada we had our Thanksgiving last month, lately I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the things I&#8217;m thankful for.  As I said to a friend the other day, I think it&#8217;s very easy to get caught up in thoughts of what you don&#8217;t have yet, that you wish you did.  And there&#8217;s nothing wrong with wishing.  But what is the point in accomplishing anything if you don&#8217;t take time to appreciate what you have, rather than focusing right in on the next goal?<\/p>\n<p>Five years ago I didn&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d ever have an agent.  I didn&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d ever sell one book, let alone four.  All of that was a dream.  I&#8217;m living that dream now, and I try to remember that as often as possible.  It doesn&#8217;t mean everything is perfect, or easy.  But then I never dreamed it would be.  <\/p>\n<p>So thank you, so much, to all of those who&#8217;ve helped make that happen!  I hope you get to live your dreams too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving to my US friends and blog readers! Though up here in Canada we had our Thanksgiving last month, lately I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the things I&#8217;m thankful for. As I said to a friend the other &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/24\/giving-thanks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}