{"id":277,"date":"2012-03-07T20:11:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T04:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justrythis.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/07\/be-grateful\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T20:11:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T04:11:18","slug":"be-grateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vahnmanx\/2012\/03\/07\/be-grateful\/","title":{"rendered":"Be grateful for what you have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching this video makes you realize just how fortunate we are in our current situations and further emphasizes the fact to never give up on your goal. The story told by this Romanian details his trek trying to escape from Romania and how he ultimately arrived in Montreal Canada with barely any food or water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we aren\u2019t grateful of where we are, what we have, and how fortunate we are to live in such an amazing country I call Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Very few people realize how blessed we are to be where we are today, and likely have never faced against the odds that these guys faced.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to leave with the message to not take what we have for granted, and to be grateful for where we are and to give back to help others in need from time to time. We\u2019d want the same thing in their situation.<\/p>\n<p>And when you want to sit for hours on end procrastinating, watch some inspirational videos, and be proactive and make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching this video makes you realize just how fortunate we are in our current situations and further emphasizes the fact to never give up on your goal. The story told by this Romanian details his trek trying to escape from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vahnmanx\/2012\/03\/07\/be-grateful\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688931],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vahnmanx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vahnmanx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vahnmanx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vahnmanx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vahnmanx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vahnmanx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vahnmanx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vahnmanx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vahnmanx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}