{"id":1699,"date":"2014-06-09T01:23:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T06:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2014-05-19T07:28:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:28:24","slug":"try-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2014\/06\/try-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"Try Harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes the key to doing something better is really quite simple.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the years I have improved various things in my life. People ask me,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did I improve my handwriting from awful to neat?<\/li>\n<li>How did I improve my grammar and punctuation?<\/li>\n<li>How did I improve my fiction writing?<\/li>\n<li>How did I&#8230;?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The answer is,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I tried harder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, the answer is grammatically incorrect, but I hope the point comes across. Sometimes the simplest thing is the answer. I didn&#8217;t use any great new method; I didn&#8217;t hire someone to teach me something. I simply tried harder.<\/p>\n<p>Something not working as well as you wish it to work? Failing again and again at the same old thing? Looking for answers?<\/p>\n<p>Try trying harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes the key to doing something better is really quite simple. Over the years I have improved various things in my life. People ask me, How did I improve my handwriting from awful to neat? How did I improve my grammar and punctuation? How did I improve my fiction writing? How did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","tag-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}