{"id":613,"date":"2009-01-09T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2009-01-09T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T16:00:56","slug":"purpose-priorities-meaning-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/purpose-priorities-meaning-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Purpose.  Priorities. Meaning. Life."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just about the time I start getting too deep into a subject or topic, I am quietly reminded by that still small voice that it really isn&#8217;t about me at all.\u00a0 Recent events in life have caused us to think about a great deal of things &#8211; elections, vacations, births, deaths, friends coming, friends going, life in general.\u00a0 When you focus on any one thing, it almost becomes overwhelming.\u00a0 When you focus on all of them at one time, it becomes even more so.\u00a0 But when you stand back and look at it from a completely different view, through somebody else&#8217;s perspective, everything becomes so much clearer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/priorities-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-614\" title=\"I am thinking one of these beauties would look good in the front yard...\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/priorities-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/priorities-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/priorities-1-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Dr. E.L. Kersten for the constant slaps back to reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just about the time I start getting too deep into a subject or topic, I am quietly reminded by that still small voice that it really isn&#8217;t about me at all.\u00a0 Recent events in life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,7],"tags":[69,117,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}