{"id":135,"date":"2012-10-20T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quotemyt.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2016-06-17T12:52:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T18:22:06","slug":"ir0nw1l-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2012\/10\/ir0nw1l-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"IronWil, Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\">The journey you may be called to serve, may not be the one you envisioned<\/span>.&#8221; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #000080;\">@ir0nw1l<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I came up with this thought, during college as I continued my professional education and personal growth.\u00a0 I realized that my own life had not followed the course that I had planned.\u00a0 My decision to attend college came about after I considered and intended to do something else.\u00a0 There were also a few other things that happened which changed the course of events in my life.\u00a0 I married before I started a Master&#8217;s Degree and now that has been put on hold until the kids are older.<\/p>\n<p>The point being that the decisions we make and events that come into our lives change what comes later on.\u00a0 I find this aspect of life very interesting and challenging.\u00a0 I marvel at how my own life is so very different then what I had intended or planned for myself.\u00a0 I am on the East Coast, which is something I planned on.\u00a0 I am not where I planned to be or even doing the work I expected.\u00a0 I live in a place that I would not have picked except for the circumstances that brought me to this city.\u00a0 It is interesting and it has been a learning experience I will carry with me for a long time.\u00a0 I think that it will also impact what type of housing and location my wife and I select when it comes time to move on.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest challenge is finding joy in the journey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">ironwil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The journey you may be called to serve, may not be the one you envisioned.&#8221; &#8211; @ir0nw1l I came up with this thought, during college as I continued my professional education and personal growth.\u00a0 I realized that my own life had not followed the course that I had planned.\u00a0 My decision to attend college came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31,28],"tags":[43,33,60,54,26,62,63,809],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-growth","category-personal-story","category-quote","tag-challenge","tag-change","tag-education","tag-family","tag-iron-wil","tag-joy","tag-life","tag-personal-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}