{"id":253,"date":"2011-12-16T12:07:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancullen.net\/stories\/?p=253"},"modified":"2011-12-16T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:07:18","slug":"the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/2011\/12\/16\/the-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"The Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When talking about hills and valleys,<br \/>\nmost people speak of descending into the valley as a negative thing<br \/>\nas in &#8222;entering the valley of despair after a mountaintop experience.\u201d<br \/>\nBut as I walked down the last hill before I approached my apartment,<br \/>\nI realized that I expended less energy and was cooler that when I was walking at a higher elevation just a few minutes earlier.<br \/>\nI felt refreshed and renewed by my brief valley respite.<br \/>\nAnd as I got mentally prepared to climb the final hill<br \/>\nI realized that valleys have two types of transition<br \/>\ndescending and ascending.<br \/>\nThe time spent in the valley determines the nature of the transition into the next phase.<br \/>\nHow do you spend your time in the valley?<br \/>\nDo you squander your time of rest?<br \/>\nDo you complain about the slower pace?<br \/>\nOr do you use the time to prepare, reflect, refine, retro fit, and retread?<br \/>\nThe valley does not have to be a resting place for victims, it can be a place of preparation of victory.<br \/>\nWill you be ready to ascend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When talking about hills and valleys, most people speak of descending into the valley as a negative thing as in &#8222;entering the valley of despair after a mountaintop experience.\u201d But as I walked down the last hill before I approached my apartment, I realized that I expended less energy and was cooler that when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}