{"id":1261,"date":"2012-03-09T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2012\/03\/09\/march-ex-vi-faced-anxiety-on-day-nine\/"},"modified":"2012-03-10T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T15:45:04","slug":"march-ex-vi-faced-anxiety-on-day-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1261","title":{"rendered":"March-Ex VI: faced anxiety on day nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI think I grew in different ways\u2014just that it didn\u2019t break me, I didn\u2019t really just quit. There were moments when I was definitely close.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Taylor Kitsch <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dana told me, \u201cJust remember, these are your friends, and they want you to do well.\u201d With that helpful suggestion, I finalized my PowerPoint presentation and headed out to address the club that I\u2019d quit nearly three years ago. It\u2019s funny how nagging insecurities and self-doubt can get in the way of achieving a straightforward goal. I decided to do this. I knew I was fully knowledgeable and capable of pulling it off. And yet, somehow, the lead-up was all about overcoming the fear of failure. The ability to perform is in my bones, I guess, but speaking in public has never come easy for me. I thought to myself, whatever you\u2019re dealing with, there is nobody more on pins and needles today than young Taylor Kitsch. So I picked up the microphone, smiled, said, \u201cThank you, Danville Rotary!\u201d and shared my passion for bicycling. John Carter ordered, \u201cGet on!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3_9_2012.jpg' alt='3_9_2012.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 125%; margin-top: -5px; margin-bottom: 19px; color: gray;\">\n<em>A Cult of One<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think I grew in different ways\u2014just that it didn\u2019t break me, I didn\u2019t really just quit. There were moments when I was definitely close.\u201d \u2014Taylor Kitsch Dana told me, \u201cJust remember, these are your friends, and they want you to do well.\u201d With that helpful suggestion, I finalized my PowerPoint presentation and headed out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,12,21,22,16,34,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}