{"id":3540,"date":"2013-06-12T10:29:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T16:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2013-06-12T11:17:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T17:17:02","slug":"something-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3540","title":{"rendered":"Something Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My historical mentor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/\">G.K. Chesterton<\/a> wrote prodigiously and well. Here&#8217;s his encouragement to us to get going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.&#8221;<i> Illustrated London News<\/i>, April 29, 1922<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.&#8221; <i>London Daily News<\/i>, October 18, 1901<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His head was always most valuable when he had lost it. In such moments he put two and two together and made four million.&#8221;<i> The Innocence of Father Brown<\/i>, 1911<\/p>\n<p>There you have it: Escape fate by action. Don&#8217;t worry that you might not be a master at your chosen action. The key thing is to begin. And finally, sometimes magic happens and your ideas go crazy!<\/p>\n<p>And that brings to mind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My historical mentor G.K. Chesterton wrote prodigiously and well. Here&#8217;s his encouragement to us to get going. &#8220;I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.&#8221; Illustrated London News, April 29, 1922 &#8220;If a thing is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Something Old<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-mobilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}