{"id":8207,"date":"2014-11-19T05:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T13:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=8207"},"modified":"2014-11-18T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T06:30:10","slug":"being-passionate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8207","title":{"rendered":"Being passionate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to know a family who had a retriever. They had a contraption on the deck to launch balls into the back yard. She would gladly chase a ball until her heart exploded. She was totally in love with chasing and retrieving a ball. It was her purpose in life. <\/p>\n

I always wanted to have something like that. <\/p>\n

There are things I love to do. A lot of things. Things with words. Things with singing. Things with yarn. Nothing that consumes me like that, though. <\/p>\n

On second thought, I wake up to write at 4 am. Maybe I am wrong about not being passionate about anything. I wouldn’t write until my heart exploded though. <\/p>\n

Perhaps that’s for the best.<\/p>\n

Plus, if my heart was going to explode from writing, I’d want to have written something a whole lot better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I used to know a family who had a retriever. They had a contraption on the deck to launch balls into the back yard. She would gladly chase a ball until her heart exploded. She was totally in love with chasing and retrieving a ball. It was her purpose in life. 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