{"id":78,"date":"2014-08-06T14:22:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mhc2005.org\/?p=78"},"modified":"2014-09-02T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:49:54","slug":"5-things-i-would-say-to-my-20-year-old-self-beaoklea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mhc2005.org\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"5 things I would say to my 20-year old self &#8212; beoaklea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font color=\"009900\">1.<\/b> Unemployment happens. It isn&#8217;t the end of the world and you&#8217;re not a failure because of it.<br \/>\n<b>2.<\/b> Travel more. You&#8217;ll regret not dropping things and running in any, and every, direction while you aren&#8217;t tied down.<br \/>\n<b>3.<\/b> Let go of people that don&#8217;t lift you up. They wont support you when you really need it and will waste your time reaching your dream&#8230; even if they seem like they&#8217;re part of the &#8220;fun&#8221; crowd.<br \/>\n<b>4.<\/b> Know that you can still surprise yourself. Academically, emotionally, athletically, and financially in really positive ways.<br \/>\n<b>5.<\/b> Start a retirement fund by the time you turn 25. You&#8217;ll thank yourself for thinking ahead.<br \/>\n<b>6.<\/b> (to grow on) Read Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed. Cry hard, laugh hard, and give it to someone else who needs it too.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=\"009900\">&#8211; Bryn Oakleaf<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Unemployment happens. It isn&#8217;t the end of the world and you&#8217;re not a failure because of it. 2. Travel more. You&#8217;ll regret not dropping things and running in any, and every, direction while you aren&#8217;t tied down. 3. Let go of people that don&#8217;t lift you up. They wont support you when you really [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mhc2005.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mhc2005.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mhc2005.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mhc2005.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mhc2005.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mhc2005.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mhc2005.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mhc2005.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mhc2005.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}