{"id":295,"date":"2024-11-20T21:50:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/?page_id=295"},"modified":"2024-11-30T03:29:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T03:29:36","slug":"opportunities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;font-size: 14pt\">by John Grey<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">In my life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I\u2019ve known<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">both thinkers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">and doers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">And the thinkers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">thought of something<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">but didn\u2019t do anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">And the doers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">without thinking,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">just did<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The thinkers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">missed their opportunities<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">by inaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The doers screwed up theirs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">with indiscretion and recklessness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I am neither<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">thinker or doer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I am a poet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">When opportunities<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">present themselves,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I write a poem<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">about opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Opportunities<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">are used to this by now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Grey In my life, I\u2019ve known both thinkers and doers. &nbsp; And the thinkers thought of something but didn\u2019t do anything. &nbsp; And the doers, without thinking, just did &nbsp; The thinkers missed their opportunities by inaction. &nbsp; The doers screwed up theirs with indiscretion and recklessness. &nbsp; I am neither thinker or <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/opportunities\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":48,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-295","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}