{"id":431,"date":"2011-07-10T12:13:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T16:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/?p=431"},"modified":"2016-10-21T12:59:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T16:59:19","slug":"you-either-get-it-or-you-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/you-either-get-it-or-you-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"You Either &#8216;Get It&#8217;&#8230; or You Don&#8217;t."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is a never ending river flow. Sometimes the course can become dangerously erratic; Sometimes it&#8217;s filled with obstacles like rocks and fallen trees; Sometimes it reaches an &#8216;end&#8217; with a really large drop, where it continues again.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I watch this video, I get a new message out of it. Well more like the same message, but a different emphasis here and there&#8230; life doesn&#8217;t stop with your sorrows and it doesn&#8217;t care about your feelings, or what you think is &#8220;fair&#8221;. 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