{"id":23496,"date":"2014-01-27T07:54:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T15:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markhamilton-neothink-tvp.com\/?p=19908"},"modified":"2022-06-03T23:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T23:05:24","slug":"i-am-determined-to-be-cheerful-and-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neothinksociety.com\/?p=23496","title":{"rendered":"I am determined to be cheerful and happy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Mark Hamilton<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.<br \/>\nHowever down I am, I fight until the last ball.<br \/>\nMy list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.\u201d-Professional Tennis Player Bjorn Borg<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.\u201dMartha Washington 1732-1802, First American First Lady<\/p>\n<p>I have not failed. I\u2019ve just found 10,000 ways that won\u2019t work.<br \/>\n-Thomas A. Edison\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a lesson which all history teaches the wise, to put trust in ideas, not in circumstances.\u201d-Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882,Essayist, Philosopher &amp; Poet\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You, are the Narrator of Your Life\u201d-Dr. Paul D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Mark Hamilton \u201cMy greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.\u201d-Professional Tennis Player Bjorn Borg \u201cI am determined to be cheerful and happy &#8230; <a title=\"I am determined to be cheerful and happy&#8230;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neothinksociety.com\/?p=23496\" aria-label=\"Read more about I am determined to be cheerful and happy&#8230;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longtestimonials","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neothinksociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neothinksociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neothinksociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neothinksociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neothinksociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.neothinksociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41410,"href":"https:\/\/www.neothinksociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23496\/revisions\/41410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neothinksociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neothinksociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neothinksociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}