{"id":692,"date":"2016-04-12T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2016-04-12T20:00:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:00:31","slug":"dont-hate-the-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/12\/dont-hate-the-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t hate the player"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>God spoke to Cain: \u201cWhy this tantrum? Why the sulking? If you do well, won\u2019t you be accepted? And if you don\u2019t do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce; it\u2019s out to get you, you\u2019ve got to master it.\u201d &#8211; Genesis 4:6-7<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When something doesn&#8217;t work for you the way it works for someone else, don&#8217;t hate on them.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, learn from them.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a moment for you to feel sorry for yourself or evidence that you aren&#8217;t as smart\/deep\/brilliant\/special as you hope you are.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, this moment is a signpost towards an area of unconquered territory waiting for you to master it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fresh opponent to wrestle against, a new field of fresh earth for you to cultivate and transform into a thriving garden of Eden.<\/p>\n<p>And it all starts with a single decision right now:<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t hate the player, <strike>hate<\/strike> love the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God spoke to Cain: \u201cWhy this tantrum? Why the sulking? If you do well, won\u2019t you be accepted? And if you don\u2019t do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce; it\u2019s out to get you, you\u2019ve got to master it.\u201d &#8211; Genesis 4:6-7 When something doesn&#8217;t work for you the way &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/12\/dont-hate-the-player\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t hate the player&#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-692","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\/692","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=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}