{"id":2925,"date":"2019-07-11T01:35:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2019-06-29T07:45:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T12:45:03","slug":"background-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/07\/background-and-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Background and Present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Our backgrounds don&#8217;t often determine our present.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took one English class in high school.  I took one English class in college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not much of a background in writing, huh? I have written half a dozen books (published) and over a hundred articles (published) as well as a hundred short stories (self-published) and all that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How did my background lead to my present? I worked at it a little each day and continue to work at it a little each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most important factor is that <em>I wanted to write,<\/em> and no one convinced me that my background was insufficient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now let&#8217;s pause a moment here: I have written and published and all that. I have not earned much money from all that. Doing something we want does not mean we can earn a living from it. It does, however, mean that we can do something we want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do we want to do, regardless of our background?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Our backgrounds don&#8217;t often determine our present. I took one English class in high school. I took one English class in college. Not much of a background in writing, huh? I have written half a dozen books (published) and over a hundred articles (published) as well as a hundred short stories (self-published) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,90,71,67,5],"tags":[278,207,191,187],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commitment","category-education","category-fun","category-work","category-writing","tag-commitment","tag-education","tag-fun","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","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=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}