{"id":674,"date":"2006-07-27T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T15:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/27\/taking-the-big-leap\/"},"modified":"2006-07-27T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T15:19:53","slug":"taking-the-big-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/27\/taking-the-big-leap\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Big Leap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Colleen Taylor is taking a <a href=\"http:\/\/finding-a-voice.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/new-season.html\">big leap<\/a>, of the job change sort.  Her story sparked some reflection about my own leaps and edges.  <\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell, for all my leaping, I have never really gotten <em>over<\/em> the edge.  Even when I thought I&#8217;d literally stepped off &#8220;the big one&#8221; some years ago, and fell to the rocks below, it turned out to be just 15 feet of falling and tumbling.  <\/p>\n<p>That one literal leap aside, it seems <em>the edge<\/em> just keeps moving closer to and then deeper into who I am.  The leaps, even the apparently big ones, dissolve into so many daring little internal shifts.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Colleen Taylor is taking a big leap, of the job change sort. Her story sparked some reflection about my own leaps and edges. As far as I can tell, for all my leaping, I have never really gotten over the edge. Even when I thought I&#8217;d literally stepped off &#8220;the big one&#8221; some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/27\/taking-the-big-leap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taking the Big Leap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}