{"id":97,"date":"2006-07-30T15:15:30","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T07:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/fionna\/cafelatte\/?p=99"},"modified":"2006-07-30T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T07:15:30","slug":"inspirational-thoughts-3-of-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Inspirational Thoughts (3 of 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">CONTROLS<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You cannot control the length of your life,<br \/>\nbut you can control its width and depth.<br \/>\nYou cannot control the contour of your <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Countenance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?va=countenance\">countenance<\/a>,<br \/>\nbut you can control its expression.<br \/>\nYou cannot control the other person&#8217;s opportunities,<br \/>\nbut you can grasp your own.<br \/>\nYou cannot control the weather,<br \/>\nbut you can control the moral atmosphere which surrounds you.<br \/>\nYou cannot control the distance that your head shall be above the ground,<br \/>\nbut you can control the height of the contents of your mind.<br \/>\nYou cannot control the other person&#8217;s faults,<br \/>\nbut you can see to it that you yourself do not develop or harbour provoking <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Propensities\" href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/dictionary\/propensities\">propensities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why worry about things you cannot control?<br \/>\nGet busy controlling the things that depend on you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nA little similar to the 1 of the 3 thoughts the taxi driver gave to you yesterday?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONTROLS You cannot control the length of your life, but you can control its width and depth. You cannot control the contour of your countenance, but you can control its expression. You cannot control the other person&#8217;s opportunities, but you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elm3.org\/?p=97\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}