{"id":705,"date":"2005-08-29T16:53:43","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T15:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2005-08-29T16:55:27","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T15:55:27","slug":"picked-up-on-the-road-to-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"getting through just one more night."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the age of twelve, Milton Ericksson was a victim of polio. Ten months after he contracted the disease, he heard a doctor tell his parents: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153your son won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t live through the night.\u00e2\u20ac\u009dEricksson heard his mother crying. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maybe she won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t suffer so much if I get through tonight,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he thought to himself. And he decided not to sleep till dawn.   In the morning he shouted out: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hey mother! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still alive!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  There was so much joy in the house that from then on he resolved to resist always one more night in order to postpone his parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 suffering. He died in 1990 at the age of 75, leaving behind a series of important books on the enormous capacity that man has to overcome his own limitations. (Thanks to Paulo Coelho).<\/p>\n<p>I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the age of twelve, Milton Ericksson was a victim of polio. Ten months after he contracted the disease, he heard a doctor tell his parents: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153your son won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t live through the night.\u00e2\u20ac\u009dEricksson heard his mother crying. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maybe she won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t suffer so much if I get through tonight,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he thought to himself. And he decided&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miracle-drug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}