{"id":1040,"date":"2021-08-03T08:41:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2021-08-03T08:41:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:41:20","slug":"the-tahiti-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/08\/03\/the-tahiti-button\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tahiti Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/kristopher-roller-PC_lbSSxCZE-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/kristopher-roller-PC_lbSSxCZE-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"416\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/kristopher-roller-PC_lbSSxCZE-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/kristopher-roller-PC_lbSSxCZE-unsplash-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>The Tahiti Button<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You know<br \/>\nthat moment<br \/>\nwhen<br \/>\nyou know<br \/>\nyou can push<br \/>\nthe button and<br \/>\nbuy the ticket to<br \/>\nTahiti?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Even though<br \/>\nyou\u2019ve believed<br \/>\nyou couldn\u2019t or<br \/>\nshouldn\u2019t<br \/>\na thousand times<br \/>\nbefore?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">And then you<br \/>\npush it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You know<br \/>\nthat voice<br \/>\nthat says<br \/>\nyou\u2019ve fallen<br \/>\nshort,<br \/>\nyou\u2019re not<br \/>\nwho you\u2019d hoped<br \/>\nto be<br \/>\nby now?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The voice<br \/>\nyou\u2019ve heard<br \/>\na thousand times<br \/>\nbefore?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">And there\u2019s proof,<br \/>\nright?<br \/>\nThat towering<br \/>\npile of<br \/>\n\u201ccoulds\u201d and \u201cshoulds,\u201d<br \/>\nbut you<br \/>\ndon\u2019t or won\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I\u2019m starting to<br \/>\nwonder<br \/>\nwhat those<br \/>\nvoices are<br \/>\nhiding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I\u2019m starting to<br \/>\nwonder<br \/>\nif there\u2019s a<br \/>\n\u201cdo\u201d and \u201cwill\u201d<br \/>\nbutton<br \/>\nand<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">pushing it<br \/>\nis like<br \/>\npushing the<br \/>\nTahiti Button.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Kristopher Roller, UnSplash<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Tahiti Button You know that moment when you know you can push the button and buy the ticket to Tahiti? Even though you\u2019ve believed you couldn\u2019t or shouldn\u2019t a thousand times before? And then you push it? You know that voice that says you\u2019ve fallen short, you\u2019re not who you\u2019d hoped to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}