{"id":229,"date":"2011-04-13T19:35:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T23:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/successrefresh.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2011-04-13T19:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T23:35:17","slug":"what-happens-when-i-stop-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/what-happens-when-i-stop-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When I Stop Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I stop reading, I stop blogging. I stop thinking. I stop coming up with innovative ideas. <\/p>\n<p>Since Christmas 2010, I started reading again. I watch 2-hours of television a day &#8211; and even that I feel is too much. Outside of that, I read.<\/p>\n<p>And since I&#8217;m very particular about which events I attend, books fill the gap. I go through 4-5 books per  month and when I do, I feel smarter.<\/p>\n<p>But over the past 6-weeks, I&#8217;ve focused my attention on filling a program (which sold out 30-days before the training starts). I&#8217;m also putting the finishing touches on my second book. <\/p>\n<p>In that time, I&#8217;ve had little time to read. The only book I&#8217;ve been able to get my hands on is the Bible. I love the Bible. I discover new gems all the time. But without other books to supplement what I&#8217;m reading, I don&#8217;t feel challenged. I don&#8217;t feel God speaking truths to me.<\/p>\n<p>And hence the reason this blog has remained voiceless. Static. Stale. And so, I went to the library, I bought some ebooks through Kobo and I&#8217;m getting set to unleash a wave of intellectuals torrents.<\/p>\n<p>Get ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I stop reading, I stop blogging. I stop thinking. I stop coming up with innovative ideas. Since Christmas 2010, I started reading again. I watch 2-hours of television a day &#8211; and even that I feel is too much. Outside of that, I read. And since I&#8217;m very particular about which events I attend, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-teller","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}