{"id":146,"date":"2015-07-09T23:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T23:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2015-07-09T23:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T23:30:45","slug":"a-hard-week-but-easy-in-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/09\/a-hard-week-but-easy-in-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"A hard week, but easy in comparison&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bib2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bib2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"bib2\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bib2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bib2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week has been an extremely stressful one, with so much more being put on my plate due to the smaller staff.  The training sessions have been a nice respite from it, and I&#8217;m looking forward to Saturday for the next one.  In the meantime, it&#8217;s a struggle.<\/p>\n<p>As I do during those times, I&#8217;ve been walking around my home and looking at the myriad of accomplishments (photos and awards) from the last decade that cover my walls.  Throughout the past couple days, I keep coming back to this bib.<\/p>\n<p>Not just because of the accomplishment of that first Triathlon, but moreso memories of the weekend.  Yes, this week has been a s***-show.  But I know I&#8217;ve got little right or reason to complain, as I know several of the friends that I made over the weekend are going through their day with even more struggle.  <\/p>\n<p>The bottom line here is to always remember that the glass is always half full.  It can always be or get worse, so always be thankful for what you have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been an extremely stressful one, with so much more being put on my plate due to the smaller staff. The training sessions have been a nice respite from it, and I&#8217;m looking forward to Saturday for the next one. In the meantime, it&#8217;s a struggle. As I do during those times, I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/09\/a-hard-week-but-easy-in-comparison\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A hard week, but easy in comparison&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,7],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","tag-dare2tri","tag-james-gilliard"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}