{"id":55,"date":"2010-10-30T12:40:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T17:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/of-raking-leaves-and-writing-cont\/"},"modified":"2010-10-30T12:40:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T17:40:45","slug":"of-raking-leaves-and-writing-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/2010\/10\/30\/of-raking-leaves-and-writing-cont\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Raking Leaves and Writing (cont)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Imagine that an angel appears to you and asks you to rake for an hour. &#8220;I&#8217;m just a messenger,&#8221; he says.<br \/>\n2. No need to be perfect. He knows you can&#8217;t get every single leaf. He just wants you to rake for an hour.<br \/>\n3. Don&#8217;t let the cold stop you. The movement of your arms will warm you up.<br \/>\n4. There&#8217;s no one place to start. Where you start is the beginning.<br \/>\n5. How you feel while you are raking is not important.<br \/>\n6. Don&#8217;t worry what others think of the work, you&#8217;re raking for Whoever sent the angel.<br \/>\n7. It&#8217;s messy work, there&#8217;s no getting around that.<br \/>\n8. Be grateful when the sun comes out.<br \/>\n9. Raking is not more significant or less significant than anything else.<br \/>\n10. When the hour is done, walk away humbly.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Imagine that an angel appears to you and asks you to rake for an hour. &#8220;I&#8217;m just a messenger,&#8221; he says. 2. No need to be perfect. He knows you can&#8217;t get every single leaf. He just wants you to rake for an hour. 3. Don&#8217;t let the cold stop you. The movement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,14,2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-raking","category-religion","category-writing","category-young-adult-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}