{"id":595,"date":"2008-05-09T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T11:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/is-it-the-econo\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T11:18:18","slug":"is-it-the-econo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/is-it-the-econo\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It the Economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all of the talk about the economy one could get lost in the maze and forget where great opportunity can be found.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t write this to diminish any pain you may be experiencing, but to remind you of what could be ahead of you.<\/p>\n<p>In that spirit, look at the below post from a couple of weeks ago:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Having trouble in life and\/or career?&nbsp; <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Think about the following:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Trouble is like fire in the furnace that removes impurities from gold-your gold. <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Trouble is like a plow to soil being prepared for seed planting-seeds of a great life. <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Trouble is like an inconvenient truth haunting you to move out of what&#8217;s familiar and comfortable. <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Trouble and pain are relatives, and they both are megaphones for a deaf world (thanks to C.S. Lewis for that analogy). <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Trouble is like a laser in a master surgeon&#8217;s hands that focuses exactly where the need is. <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Trouble should move you to ask for help. <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Trouble is like the rainstorm that precedes the sun and rainbow.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all of the talk about the economy one could get lost in the maze and forget where great opportunity can be found.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t write this to diminish any pain you may be experiencing, but to remind you of what could be ahead of you. In that spirit, look at the below post from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-leadership-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}