{"id":516,"date":"2013-09-14T20:43:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T01:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2013-09-14T20:44:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T01:44:02","slug":"keep-calm-and-carry-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/keep-calm-and-carry-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep calm and carry on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week my employer sent me out to the far coast to assist on a project, so I haven&#8217;t had a chance to do much photography, or anything else, lately. There is, however, one thing I&#8217;d like to share.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned a couple of recent encounters I&#8217;ve had with people who have inspired me by their persistence through what can easily be called tragedy. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/william-a-prall-1943-2013\">My Sister<\/A> caring for her terminally-ill husband, and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/flight-of-the-dove-2013\/\">the cyclists<\/A> who rode the 62-mile Flight of the Dove pedaling with their hands and arms and who finished before I did. These sorts of stories seem to be all around us.<\/p>\n<p>I had the opportunity to meet a co-worker in person who I had heard was having vision issues. I didn&#8217;t realize the extent of the issues: this person now uses a cane and is on track to get a guide dog. And yet, they are still a very capable and valued member of our team. That someone can encounter this kind of life-changing event, and continue to work and, at least in our encounters, seem to not be slowed down by it, is inspiring to me. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re dealing with many resulting issues, but what I see is, again, a perseverance and fortitude that I&#8217;m not sure I could ever match. I am encouraged when I see these people successfully dealing problems like this.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, here&#8217;s one picture I did get on the trip:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5512492014183163921\/5923656323980807650?pid=5923656323980807650&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMG_20130908_125613_402_tn.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week my employer sent me out to the far coast to assist on a project, so I haven&#8217;t had a chance to do much photography, or anything else, lately. There is, however, one thing I&#8217;d like to share. I&#8217;ve mentioned a couple of recent encounters I&#8217;ve had with people who have inspired me by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}