{"id":133800,"date":"2015-10-01T10:45:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T10:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/01\/itzthebombdotcom-humansofnewyork-when-is-the\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T07:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T07:38:24","slug":"itzthebombdotcom-humansofnewyork-when-is-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/01\/itzthebombdotcom-humansofnewyork-when-is-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-133800 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/01\/itzthebombdotcom-humansofnewyork-when-is-the\/attachment\/133801\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_njd2sis6XS1qggwnvo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_njd2sis6XS1qggwnvo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_njd2sis6XS1qggwnvo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/itzthebombdotcom.tumblr.com\/post\/129994682389\" target=\"_blank\">itzthebombdotcom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/humansofnewyork.tumblr.com\/post\/110263143446\" target=\"_blank\">humansofnewyork<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen is the time you felt most broken?\u201d<br \/>\u201cI first ran for Congress in 1999, and I got beat. I just got whooped. I had been in the state legislature for a long time, I was in the minority party, I wasn\u2019t getting a lot done, and I was away from my family and putting a lot of strain on Michelle. Then for me to run and lose that bad, I was thinking maybe this isn\u2019t what I was cut out to do. I was forty years old, and I\u2019d invested a lot of time and effort into something that didn\u2019t seem to be working. But the thing that got me through that moment, and any other time that I\u2019ve felt stuck, is to remind myself that it\u2019s about the work. Because if you\u2019re worrying about yourself\u2014if you\u2019re thinking: \u2018Am I succeeding? Am I in the right position? Am I being appreciated?\u2019 \u2014 then you\u2019re going to end up feeling frustrated and stuck. But if you can keep it about the work, you\u2019ll always have a path. There\u2019s always something to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Changed my life<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>itzthebombdotcom: humansofnewyork: \u201cWhen is the time you felt most broken?\u201d\u201cI first ran for Congress in 1999, and I got beat. I just got whooped. I had been in the state legislature for a long time, I was in the minority party, I wasn\u2019t getting a lot done, and I was away from my family and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/01\/itzthebombdotcom-humansofnewyork-when-is-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9009,881,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133802,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133800\/revisions\/133802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}