{"id":1738,"date":"2009-07-30T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:45:09","slug":"stuff-tacked-to-my-office-wall-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/stuff-tacked-to-my-office-wall-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff tacked to my office wall, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On power:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>You have to come to it on your own, through hardship and fear. You have to know who you are and what you believe and you have to take stock of that every day. You have to walk barefoot through fire on broken glass. You have to stand up to people who frighten you under conditions that terrify you. You have to be honest with yourself about what you really want. You have to be willing to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Power is acquired, earned. You\u2019ll have many opportunities in your life to earn bits and pieces of it. You\u2019ll make bad choices; learn from them and do the best you can with them. Do not, under any circumstances, dither over what the right choice might be every single time you\u2019re presented with one. It won\u2019t teach you anything and you\u2019ll be a bore at cocktail parties.<\/p>\n<p>Acquiring power is a never-ending process. Every day you have to wake up and prove to the world all over again that you deserve it. There should never come a day when you wake up and say, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m powerful now; I\u2019m done.\u2019 <strong>Never<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014Giselle to Justice, <em>The Proviso<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On power: You have to come to it on your own, through hardship and fear. You have to know who you are and what you believe and you have to take stock of that every day. You have to walk barefoot through fire on broken glass. You have to stand up to people who frighten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[581,81,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-the-proviso","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16836,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/16836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}