{"id":62664,"date":"2017-11-01T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=62664"},"modified":"2017-11-01T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T23:22:53","slug":"the-making-of-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/01\/the-making-of-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: The Making of Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61861\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swafford.jpg\" alt=\"Swafford\" width=\"850\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swafford.jpg 850w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swafford-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swafford-768x368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swafford-600x287.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size:18px\">Champions are made by doing the little things, and the war is won in the small battles of life. Being faithful and committed in the small things leads to heroic virtue when it truly counts. Indeed, it is in doing the little things now that you develop the character to become that husband and father you hope to be someday<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Sarah Swafford, Emotional Virtue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champions are made by doing the little things, and the war is won in the small battles of life. Being faithful and committed in the small things leads to heroic virtue when it truly counts. Indeed, it is in doing the little things now that you develop the character to become that husband and father you hope to be someday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[3964,872,3963,3770],"class_list":["post-62664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-champion","tag-character","tag-faithfulness","tag-sarah-swafford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65780,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62664\/revisions\/65780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}