{"id":160218,"date":"2015-04-07T14:43:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/07\/rowanthesloth-yackalope-if-you-ever-feel-like\/"},"modified":"2015-04-07T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:43:54","slug":"rowanthesloth-yackalope-if-you-ever-feel-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/07\/rowanthesloth-yackalope-if-you-ever-feel-like\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rowanthesloth.tumblr.com\/post\/115496244399\/yackalope-if-you-ever-feel-like-you-are-stuck\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">rowanthesloth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yackalope.tumblr.com\/post\/115042526011\/if-you-ever-feel-like-you-are-stuck-with-whatever\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">yackalope<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>if you ever feel like you are stuck with whatever choices you make when you\u2019re young, please remember that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>van Gogh didn\u2019t start painting until his 20\u2032s<\/li>\n<li>Alan Rickman got his first movie role at age 46<\/li>\n<li>kentucky fried chicken was launched when colonel sanders was 65<\/li>\n<li>Charles Darwin was going to be a Preacher<\/li>\n<li>Mick Jagger studied\u00a0accounting and finance.<\/li>\n<li>J. K Rowling was 32 when Harry Potter and the philosopher\u2019s Stone\u00a0was published<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually Alan Rickman was 42 in his first cinematic movie role (he was in a few TV movies and series before that), and had already been in <i>Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves<\/i> by the time he was 45.<\/p>\n<p>But the point still stands. Lots of people do not achieve greatness or find the thing they were born to do until later in life. Don\u2019t compare yourself to teen pop stars and 20-something actors. You are not done at 21.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rowanthesloth: yackalope: if you ever feel like you are stuck with whatever choices you make when you\u2019re young, please remember that: van Gogh didn\u2019t start painting until his 20\u2032s Alan Rickman got his first movie role at age 46 kentucky fried chicken was launched when colonel sanders was 65 Charles Darwin was going to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/07\/rowanthesloth-yackalope-if-you-ever-feel-like\/\" 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":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17950,353,17948,17949,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160218"}],"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=160218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}