{"id":2771,"date":"2013-04-08T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T04:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2018-09-24T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T04:15:53","slug":"marathon-series-of-sprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/marathon-series-of-sprints\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon? Series Of Sprints?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Race\"<\/a>People like to say that life is like a marathon. We’re in for the long haul, so space yourself out, don’t get burned out! Others say that’s not true at all, that life is really a series of sprints. Rest at the right times, flat out when appropriate. What’s your view?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I think life is like a campaign. Times of slow preparation. Frenzied preparation. Waiting. Slow movement. Quick movement. Wild melees. Rest. Slow movement. And so on. As is often the case, truth lies somewhere in between.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, don’t worry about it. Two-thirds throttle, and be ready for bursts of action. Enjoy the journey!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People like to say that life is like a marathon. We’re in for the long haul, so space yourself out, don’t get burned out! Others say that’s not true at all, that life is really a series of sprints. Rest at the right times, flat out when appropriate. What’s your view? I think life is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,13,11,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2EiEv-IH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9375,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/9375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}