Today a word I hate….<\/p>\n
Never.<\/p>\n
1 : not ever : at no time <I never met her>
2 : not in any degree : not under any condition <never the wiser for his experience><\/p>\n
What's wrong with never? It's a word used to keep you from doing things. "It will never work." "Never gonna happen." Etc.<\/p>\n
A story of mine that Rida is tired of hearing:<\/p>\n
While visiting my father in California, he had borrowed someone's chainsaw to take down a tree in his backyard. The tree, however, had some relatives in the petrified forest, and proved itself to be quite tough – it broke the chain on the chainsaw. My father was ready to give up, when I said "Got an axe? I'll chop it down." He looked at me, then looked at this tree that had gotten the better of a whirring chainsaw, and he said, "There's no way. You'll never get this tree down with an axe."<\/p>\n
Wrong. Answer.<\/i><\/p>\n
It took me over an hour of swinging a damn axe over and over, on opposite sides of the trunk, but I toppled that tree. Then I immediately went inside, stupid smug look on my face, and collapsed into bed – my arms were sore for days. But there was no way I was going to let "never" get in the way of my arrogance.<\/p>\n
We can do the impossible. It just takes longer.<\/p>\n
–Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today a word I hate….<\/p>\n
Never.<\/p>\n
1 : not ever : at no time <I never met her>
2 : not in any degree : not under any condition <never the wiser for his experience><\/p>\n
What's wrong with never? It's a word used to keep you from doing things. "It will never work." "Never gonna happen." Etc.<\/p>\n
A story of mine…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","has-single-img"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}