{"id":359,"date":"2011-02-23T18:08:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T18:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/?p=359"},"modified":"2011-02-23T18:08:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T18:08:54","slug":"keep-on-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Keep. On. Moving."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"geor\"><em>\u201cIntegrity is telling myself the truth. Honesty is telling the truth to other people.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Spencer Johnson<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"geor\"><em>\u201cThe man dedicated to integrity finds himself always travelling. And the man dedicated to honesty attracts others who want to go and repels those that like where they are too much. \u201d<\/em> \u2013 Yours Truly<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>At my core, I am a traveler.<\/p>\n<p>Is it because I am a traveler that I have made my life about truth and honesty? Or has making my life about truth and honesty made me a traveler? I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, along the proverbial road of my most recent journey, I have come upon a \u201ctown\u201d that has sucked me into liking it so much that it threatens my travels. It could kill my spirit, energy, and gusto. It could threaten my mission, character, and priorities. Liking something too much (anything really: an idea, a possession, a person, a way of doing things, a certain income level, etc) can attach me to it in a way that it could steal my very life!<\/p>\n<p>The temptation to \u201chave things figured out\u201d or \u201cstay within known parameters\u201d is so large and looming with it\u2019s convenience, consistency and perceived safety that, for many, it is worth giving up on both integrity and honesty, which demand constant movement, change, and challenge. <\/p>\n<p>But at my core, I am a traveler.<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026like I say to myself when I am out running a few miles and want to quit, I say it to myself again\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Keep. On. Moving.<\/p>\n<p>And I am completely clear that these words do not come from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIntegrity is telling myself the truth. Honesty is telling the truth to other people.\u201d \u2013 Spencer Johnson \u201cThe man dedicated to integrity finds himself always travelling. And the man dedicated to honesty attracts others who want to go and repels those that like where they are too much. \u201d \u2013 Yours Truly At my core, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","category-the-best-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pO6nf-5N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}