{"id":3804,"date":"2017-05-13T06:57:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T06:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/13\/work-what-youve-got\/"},"modified":"2017-05-13T06:57:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T06:57:41","slug":"work-what-youve-got","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/13\/work-what-youve-got\/","title":{"rendered":"Work what you&#8217;ve got"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u200b<span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain&nbsp;<\/span><em class=\"add\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">persons is<\/em><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">&nbsp;void of understanding. &#8211; Proverbs 12:11<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">What you&#8217;ve got may not be what you&#8217;d like it to be&#8230;but <i>work <\/i>it anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Maybe you&#8217;ve only got 2 strings on your violin, or 10 minutes a day of interrupted time. Or maybe you do your best work at night but all you&#8217;ve got is your lunchbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Maybe you need a Doctor but all you&#8217;ve got is what you vaguely remember from Biology in high school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">However imperfect, inconvenient, inadequate or unsustainable it feels, work it to the hilt. Work it beyond reason. Work it till you break it, and even then, fix it up with duct tape and work it some more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Because if you work what you actually have, it will help you get what you actually need and want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Accept what you&#8217;ve got to work with&#8230;and then &#8220;work that thing&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bHe that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain&nbsp;persons is&nbsp;void of understanding. &#8211; Proverbs 12:11 What you&#8217;ve got may not be what you&#8217;d like it to be&#8230;but work it anyway. Maybe you&#8217;ve only got 2 strings on your violin, or 10 minutes a day of interrupted time. Or maybe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/13\/work-what-youve-got\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Work what you&#8217;ve got&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}