{"id":2213,"date":"2012-09-24T09:23:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T13:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2012-09-24T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T13:33:11","slug":"always-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/promised-2\/always-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2214\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2214\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2214\" title=\"Tiburon 2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tiburon-2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiburon, California, 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s this story about a woman in her thirties who wanted to become a doctor, and her mother said, \u201cA doctor! It\u2019ll take you eight years to become a doctor.\u201d\u00a0 And the woman said, \u201cWhat\u2019ll I be in eight years if I <em>don\u2019t<\/em> become a doctor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I love this story. It\u2019s about believing in ourselves and planning ahead.\u00a0 It involves understanding how time accumulates and choosing what we do with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/promised-2\/promised-blog-tour\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2216\" title=\"PromBlogTour100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/PromBlogTour100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>Today, my blog tour for <em>Promised<\/em> begins as Rachael at <a href=\"http:\/\/thebookmuncher.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/promised-blog-tour.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Book Muncher<\/a> asks me about what I\u2019ve learned over the past four years of writing the <em>Birthmarked<\/em> trilogy, and how my expectations have changed. \u00a0Way back, I wrote the first draft in inspiring Tiburon, California while I was on a leave of absence from teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s this story about a woman in her thirties who wanted to become a doctor, and her mother said, \u201cA doctor! It\u2019ll take you eight years to become a doctor.\u201d\u00a0 And the woman said, \u201cWhat\u2019ll I be in eight years if I don\u2019t become a doctor?\u201d I love this story. It\u2019s about believing in ourselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promised-2","tag-promised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}