{"id":2979,"date":"2012-09-24T08:27:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/09\/you-did-it\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T08:27:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:27:45","slug":"you-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/09\/you-did-it\/","title":{"rendered":"You Did It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just came across this provocative excerpt on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiss-miss.com\/\" target=\"_self\">swiss-miss<\/a> from an interview with sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury:<\/p>\n<p><strong>INTERVIEWER<\/strong>: <strong>How important has your sense of optimism been to your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BRADBURY<\/strong>:<em> I don\u2019t believe in optimism. I believe in<br \/>\noptimal behavior. That\u2019s a different thing. If you behave every day of<br \/>\nyour life to the top of your genetics, what can you do? Test it. Find<br \/>\nout. You don\u2019t know\u2014you haven\u2019t done it yet. You must live life at the<br \/>\ntop of your voice! At the top of your lungs shout and listen to the<br \/>\nechoes. I learned a lesson years ago. I had some wonderful Swedish<br \/>\nmeatballs at my mother\u2019s table with my dad and my brother and when I<br \/>\nfinished I pushed back from the table and said, God! That was beautiful.<br \/>\nAnd my brother said, No, it was good. See the difference?<\/em><br \/><em><br \/>\nAction is hope. At the end of each day, when you\u2019ve done your work, you<br \/>\nlie there and think, Well, I\u2019ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn\u2019t<br \/>\nmatter how good it is, or how bad\u2014you did it. At the end of the week<br \/>\nyou\u2019ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you<br \/>\nlook back and say, I\u2019ll be damned, it\u2019s been a good year.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just came across this provocative excerpt on swiss-miss from an interview with sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury: INTERVIEWER: How important has your sense of optimism been to your career? BRADBURY: I don\u2019t believe in optimism. I believe in optimal behavior. That\u2019s a different thing. If you behave every day of your life to the top 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":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}