{"id":35,"date":"2005-03-23T00:39:41","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T08:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmichaelspod.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2006-05-24T16:14:18","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T00:14:18","slug":"true-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stmichaelspod.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"True Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmichaelspod.com\/podcasts\/9_St_Michaels_32305.mp3\">podcast<\/a> is a reflection on my life as I stand at a new set of crossroads. I find myself here after a recent move, a personal friendship crisis of sorts, and a seemingly fruitless job search. <\/p>\n<p>In life there is a time to blow your own horn, to accentuate the positive, and maybe even allow folks to think you are something more than you are. There is also a time for mortification of the ego and severe humility regardless of whatever seeming greatness looms in your not so distant past. I find myself alternately experiencing both of these things at the same time. <\/p>\n<p>Since I want to present myself in the best light while job hunting, I have to blow my own horn so to say. I mean who else is going to do that for me? <\/p>\n<p>However, since I realize it all depends on God and everything good including a good job ultimately must come from Him; I can see the need for self recollection and a humble malleable heart. <\/p>\n<p>This may also help any of you who always think the grass is greener just over the fence.<\/p>\n<p>All my life I wanted to achieve greatness, but I find God is just now starting to teach me what greatness is all about. <\/p>\n<p>I hope you find this humorous look at the inner workings of my mind\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6well\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6humorous!<\/p>\n<p>God bless you!<\/p>\n<p>Michael A. Barone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This podcast is a reflection on my life as I stand at a new set of crossroads. I find myself here after a recent move, a personal friendship crisis of sorts, and a seemingly fruitless job search. In life there is a time to blow your own horn, to accentuate the positive, and maybe even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-escape-the-long-reaching-arms-of-the-kumbya-generation","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmichaelspod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmichaelspod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmichaelspod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmichaelspod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmichaelspod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmichaelspod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmichaelspod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmichaelspod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmichaelspod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}