{"id":4426,"date":"2017-06-26T20:12:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T10:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/?p=4426"},"modified":"2017-06-29T17:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T07:08:04","slug":"finding-wonder-4-of-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/finding-wonder-4-of-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Wonder 4 of 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/4_finding_wonder_nice_france_indiana_jones_tom_preston_warner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4427\" src=\"http:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/4_finding_wonder_nice_france_indiana_jones_tom_preston_warner.jpg\" alt=\"4_finding_wonder_nice_france_indiana_jones_tom_preston_warner\" width=\"1596\" height=\"2532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/4_finding_wonder_nice_france_indiana_jones_tom_preston_warner.jpg 1596w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/4_finding_wonder_nice_france_indiana_jones_tom_preston_warner-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/4_finding_wonder_nice_france_indiana_jones_tom_preston_warner-768x1218.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/4_finding_wonder_nice_france_indiana_jones_tom_preston_warner-645x1024.jpg 645w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/4_finding_wonder_nice_france_indiana_jones_tom_preston_warner-300x476.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1596px) 100vw, 1596px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was a moment captured on a perfect summer&#8217;s day on the French Riviera. Riding our bikes along the footpath, these lads caught our attention as they threw themselves fearlessly into the clear waters below. We couldn&#8217;t help but stop and watch in wonder and amusement, especially as a couple of the younger boys would walk to the edge and then back away several times before finally making the jump.<\/p>\n<p>Quote is from a <a href=\"http:\/\/tom.preston-werner.com\/2008\/10\/18\/how-i-turned-down-300k.html\">piece written in 2008<\/a> by one of the founder of GitHub, Tom Preston-Warner, on how he turned down a $300K job at Microsoft to do his own thing. Makes for an interesting read.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">In the end, just as Indiana Jones could never turn down the opportunity to search for the Holy Grail, I could no less turn down the chance to work for myself on something I truly love, no matter how safe the alternative might be. When I&#8221;m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say &#8220;wow, that was an adventure, not wow I sure felt safe&#8221; &#8211; Tom Preston-Warner<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This was a moment captured on a perfect summer&#8217;s day on the French Riviera. Riding our bikes along the footpath, these lads caught our attention as they threw themselves fearlessly into the clear waters below. We couldn&#8217;t help but stop and watch in wonder and amusement, especially as a couple of the younger boys [&hellip;]&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/finding-wonder-4-of-100\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1774],"tags":[1797,1808,1799,1804,1801,1796,1802,1806,1798,1800,1807,1803,1805],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/4_finding_wonder_nice_france_indiana_jones_tom_preston_warner.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4426"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4434,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions\/4434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}