{"id":8795,"date":"2010-04-29T15:56:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2010-04-29T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:56:38","slug":"mulberries-are-like-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mulberries-are-like-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulberries are like opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mulberries72.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8796\" title=\"mulberries72\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mulberries72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>I was outside picking mulberries just now for my friend Joy.\u00a0 Since I&#8217;d picked a pint for myself and one for my neighbor the other day, I didn&#8217;t know if there would be much more ripe and within reach.\u00a0 I began at the back of the tree and moved counter clockwise around it, picking all the black berries I could reach.\u00a0 After a pint it looked like there were no more for today.\u00a0 Then I stepped 6 inches back, and suddenly I was surrounded by ripe berries!\u00a0 I thought, <em>mulberries are like opportunities. You work one section until you have taken all the mulberries you can see and you think there are no more.\u00a0 Then you step 6 inches to the right and you&#8217;re in a whole new world of mulberries<\/em>.<\/p>\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\/mulberries-are-like-opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Mulberries are like opportunities&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mulberries-are-like-opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mulberries-are-like-opportunities\/\" 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\/mulberries-are-like-opportunities\/\" 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=Mulberries%20are%20like%20opportunities&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mulberries-are-like-opportunities\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was outside picking mulberries just now for my friend Joy.\u00a0 Since I&#8217;d picked a pint for myself and one for my neighbor the other day, I didn&#8217;t know if there would be much more ripe and within reach.\u00a0 I began at the back of the tree and moved counter clockwise around it, picking all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795","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=8795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}