{"id":85,"date":"2016-12-21T10:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lagoodman11.wordpress.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2016-12-21T10:05:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:05:27","slug":"blog-the-first-shocking-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lagoodman.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/21\/blog-the-first-shocking-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog, the first; shocking resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43\" src=\"http:\/\/lagoodman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/willow-tree.jpg\" alt=\"willow-tree\" width=\"1920\" height=\"900\" \/>We&#8217;re coming up on the end of the year of our Lord 2016 and while I&#8217;ve decided not to make any sweeping resolutions this year, I have decided to streamline my life in several ways in order to progress. \u00a0Sometimes I know we feel stagnate, as if we can&#8217;t change things or move them forward. \u00a0I&#8217;m forever in a state of reminding myself that I am not a tree, I am mobile and free-thinking. \u00a0And truthfully, even trees can be uprooted and moved. \u00a0It might shock them a little, but they can survive.<\/p>\n<p>I want to shock myself. \u00a0Do you want to shock yourself?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s the best resolution we can make for ourselves for the new year. \u00a0No fad diets that die away in a month, no pressure on other areas of our lives. \u00a0Let&#8217;s just shock ourselves by moving into whatever direction we want our lives to move in. \u00a0We are not trees. \u00a0But if some of us feel like trees, we&#8217;re still mighty forces of nature that can be uprooted, moved, replanted and still survive, regrow and continue to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to a shocking 2017!<\/p>\n<p>-LG<\/p>\n<p>PS: If I were a tree, I&#8217;d be a Willow tree, all whispy in the wind, unable to sit still. \u00a0#accurate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re coming up on the end of the year of our Lord 2016 and while I&#8217;ve decided not to make any sweeping resolutions this year, I have decided to streamline &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lagoodman.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lagoodman.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lagoodman.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lagoodman.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lagoodman.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lagoodman.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lagoodman.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lagoodman.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lagoodman.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lagoodman.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}