{"id":130,"date":"2013-07-24T11:23:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T11:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2013-07-24T11:23:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T11:23:49","slug":"inspiration-karen-x-cheng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/24\/inspiration-karen-x-cheng\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration: Karen X. Cheng"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This isn\u2019t a story about dancing, though. It\u2019s about having a dream and not knowing how to get there \u2014 but starting anyway. &#8211;Karen X. Cheng<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week I came across a video titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.karenx.com\/blog\/i-learned-to-dance-in-a-year\">I learned to dance in a year<\/a>&#8220;. The video itself was lovely to watch as she showed how her movement quality became more refined through the year. Even better was her <a href=\"http:\/\/danceinayear.com\/\">writing about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I love that she taught herself how to dance. I love that she shared her enthusiasm and how-to-do-it on her website. She must have a great mind for categorizing a to-do list. So logical and practical. Is she a Virgo? And then there&#8217;s her ability to stick to a plan. I admire that she got things done. She had a goal. Laid it out sequentially. Practiced. And succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>Bravo!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn\u2019t a story about dancing, though. It\u2019s about having a dream and not knowing how to get there \u2014 but starting anyway. &#8211;Karen X. Cheng Last week I came across a video titled &#8220;I learned to dance in a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/24\/inspiration-karen-x-cheng\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}