{"id":2802,"date":"2017-06-02T16:03:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T23:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2017-06-03T01:30:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T08:30:35","slug":"social-media-as-a-motivator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/social-media-as-a-motivator\/","title":{"rendered":"social media as a motivator"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was buzzing around Facebook feeling sorry for myself when a photo of a dear friend popped up. There she is with a big smile, along with her fellow swing dancers. Looking good! (And lovely dress!) I can’t comment on whatever’s going on inside each person’s head, but I think it’s fair to imagine they are enjoying themselves and each other. Hard to ask for more when you’re talking about a night of swing dancing.<\/p>\n

That was enough to shake me out of my morning funk and go for a run around the park. Seeing friends enjoying the life they’ve built makes me want to double my effort in shaping the kind of life I want for myself.<\/p>\n

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I’m only running in loops around the park, but it’s enough motion to not feel stuck in my hometown. Heart rate graph generated by FitBit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Placing one foot in front of the other on its own may not answer the question: “how do I want to live?”,<\/em>\u00a0but it’s a start. At least I’ll be healthier and have firmer cheeks.<\/p>\n

And perhaps I can try swing dancing another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was buzzing around Facebook feeling sorry for myself when a photo of a dear friend popped up. There she is with a big smile, along with her fellow swing dancers. Looking good! (And lovely dress!) I can’t comment on whatever’s going on inside each person’s head, but I think it’s fair to imagine they … Continue reading “social media as a motivator”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-Jc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}