{"id":677,"date":"2004-11-03T09:38:13","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/11\/03\/even-the-weakest\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:21:43","slug":"even-the-weakest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/11\/03\/even-the-weakest\/","title":{"rendered":"Even The Weakest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m posting this as a reminder to myself that small-scale decisions and efforts remain the ingredients of the whole.  I&#8217;m not going to give up, despite my discouragement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is something about life that, little by little, makes us forget all that is good. This can happen to anyone&#8230; and so we must look for a cure against it. Praise be that such a cure exists: the act of quietly making a decision. A decision stirs the mind from the slumber of monotony. A decision breaks the magic spell of custom and the long row of weary thoughts. A decision will bring blessings upon even the weakest beginning. A decision is an awakening to the eternal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Soren Kierkegaard <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m posting this as a reminder to myself that small-scale decisions and efforts remain the ingredients of the whole. I&#8217;m not going to give up, despite my discouragement. There is something about life that, little by little, makes us forget all that is good. This can happen to anyone&#8230; and so we must look for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12751,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/12751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}