{"id":841,"date":"2021-05-11T22:16:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T22:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2021-05-11T22:16:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T22:16:03","slug":"about-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"About Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210131_152501-scaled-e1620313881721.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210131_152501-scaled-e1620313881721-1024x974.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-681\" width=\"228\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210131_152501-scaled-e1620313881721-1024x974.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210131_152501-scaled-e1620313881721-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210131_152501-scaled-e1620313881721-768x730.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210131_152501-scaled-e1620313881721-624x593.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210131_152501-scaled-e1620313881721.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the sun and wake as often as I can to see it rise and I must say that I have very seldom been disappointed in the beauty of a new day. For many people their goal is to rise as well. Growing, gaining, and living large are all good goals, don&#8217;t get me wrong. I am frequently reminded though of a saying from Lao Tzu an ancient Chinese follower of the Zen path. He  said that we rise together. He also said, and this is one of my &#8220;words to live by&#8221; sayings, <strong><em>We Rise By Lifting Others. <\/em><\/strong> Think about that next time a friend needs your help or you can share a kind word with someone who needs to hear it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the sun and wake as often as I can to see it rise and I must say that I have very seldom been disappointed in the beauty of a new day. For many people their goal is to rise as well. Growing, gaining, and living large are all good goals, don&#8217;t get me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}