{"id":18073,"date":"2016-11-02T16:03:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=18073"},"modified":"2016-11-02T16:03:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:03:59","slug":"love-place-love-people-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/love-place-love-people-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing what I love, in a place I love, with people I love."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Epiphany\u00a0<\/strong><strong>&#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A sudden,\u00a0intuitive\u00a0perception\u00a0of\u00a0or\u00a0insight\u00a0into\u00a0the\u00a0reality\u00a0or\u00a0essential meaning\u00a0of\u00a0something,\u00a0usually\u00a0initiated\u00a0by\u00a0some\u00a0simple,\u00a0homely,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>or commonplace\u00a0occurrence\u00a0or\u00a0experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">You know that moment when you are driving in your car, the perfect song comes on, and you get this overwhelming feeling of how much you love your life. Usually this comes when you start thinking about your friends or your family. It leaves you feeling just completely euphoric and so grateful. Well\u2026apparently that feeling is called an epiphany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The most recent time I felt this way was when I was driving home from work on October 18 a few days after the annual conference for my work. Except what was different about this time was that it was about my coworkers and my job. I have been through quite a few jobs and internships, but none even close to fulfilling as the one that I am in now. Truthfully, I never thought anything would surpass the way I felt when I played volleyball, especially not my job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">That is when I had an epiphany. It was the moment when I realized that I was exactly where I was supposed to be. My coworkers are\u00a0no longer just coworkers, they are\u00a0my friends and my family. \u00a0I am\u00a0truly and seriously really <em>happy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And my biggest epiphany of all \u2014<em> I was doing what\u00a0I love, in a place I love, with people I love.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Doing what I love, in a place I love, with people I love.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/189947640?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epiphany\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 A sudden,\u00a0intuitive\u00a0perception\u00a0of\u00a0or\u00a0insight\u00a0into\u00a0the\u00a0reality\u00a0or\u00a0essential meaning\u00a0of\u00a0something,\u00a0usually\u00a0initiated\u00a0by\u00a0some\u00a0simple,\u00a0homely,\u00a0or commonplace\u00a0occurrence\u00a0or\u00a0experience. You know that moment when you are driving in your car, the perfect song comes on, and you get this overwhelming feeling of how much you love your life. Usually this comes when you start thinking about your friends or your family. It leaves you feeling just completely euphoric and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":18078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playdetroit","category-workdetroit","category-work-detroit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}