{"id":45738,"date":"2017-03-13T07:43:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T12:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=45738"},"modified":"2022-10-02T02:21:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T07:21:48","slug":"45738-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/45738-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t do readings 40 hours a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js_2zb\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A friend asked why I spend so much time on the magazine when it only pays for itself and doesn\u2019t earn income, why don\u2019t I spend 40 hours a week doing readings instead? Wouldn\u2019t I make a whole lot more money? True, my readings are the income but, the magazine \u2013 I\u2019m in it for the outcome, not the income. Plus I enjoy it so much, <em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>it\u2019s like the story of the Chinese lettuce farmer who was known far and wide as a writer of exquisite poetry and the grower of poor, bitter lettuce. \u201cWhy don\u2019t you stop farming lettuce and spend all your time writing poetry?\u201d he is asked time and again. \u201cBecause, \u201d the farmer says, \u201cIf I do not grow poor lettuce, then I cannot write beautiful poetry.<\/strong>\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_3x-2\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/45738-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Why I don&#8217;t do readings 40 hours a week&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/45738-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/45738-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/45738-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Why%20I%20don&#8217;t%20do%20readings%2040%20hours%20a%20week&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/45738-2\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend asked why I spend so much time on the magazine when it only pays for itself and doesn\u2019t earn income, why don\u2019t I spend 40 hours a week doing readings instead? Wouldn\u2019t I make a whole lot more money? True, my readings are the income but, the magazine \u2013 I\u2019m in it for [&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-45738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49303,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45738\/revisions\/49303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}