{"id":21249,"date":"2019-06-20T23:11:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21249"},"modified":"2019-06-20T23:11:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:11:06","slug":"destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21249","title":{"rendered":"Destiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Destiny is a funny thing. Many people feel, deep in their soul, that they are here for a purpose. But one of the odd things about life is that it is generally left up to us to figure out what that purpose is.<\/p>\n<p>If your life is a book, then your true purpose is an exercise left for the reader.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you could pull back the curtain, take a peek, cheat just a little bit? Suppose that one day you got a glimpse of your actual reason for being here?<\/p>\n<p>Would that knowledge increase your resolve to fulfill your Destiny? Would it give you a more confident step, or a tighter focus? Would it steel you to your purpose?<\/p>\n<p>Or would it have the opposite effect? Would some persistent little voice within you whisper &#8220;Hey, wait a minute. Don&#8217;t I have a say in all this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And in that moment you might realize that there is a deeper truth: That your truest destiny is to do everything you can to defy Destiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destiny is a funny thing. Many people feel, deep in their soul, that they are here for a purpose. But one of the odd things about life is that it is generally left up to us to figure out what that purpose is. If your life is a book, then your true purpose is an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Destiny&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21250,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21249\/revisions\/21250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}