{"id":119,"date":"2012-11-03T10:09:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T14:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apertureoflight\/?p=119"},"modified":"2012-11-03T10:09:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T14:09:34","slug":"chasing-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2012\/11\/chasing-mavericks.html","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I saw this new surfing movie last night and it really put some things into perspective for me. \u00a0The main character, Jay just has such a giving heart. \u00a0Reflecting on this movie, there were 4 points that were re-emphasized for me:<\/p>\n

1. Invest in the relationships you have and love the people who are close to you, don’t worry so much about knowing everyone.<\/p>\n

2. Don’t complain so much, be content with what\u00a0you have and use it to the fullest
3. Look for every opportunity to help someone else or make their life easier
4. If there is a goal or a dream that you want to reach, it’s going to take hard work, probably much harder work than you anticipated, but you just have to take a chance and “drop in”!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

**Photo courtesy of The New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw this new surfing movie last night and it really put some things into perspective for me. \u00a0The main character, Jay just has such a giving heart. \u00a0Reflecting on this movie, there were 4 points that were re-emphasized for me: 1. Invest in the relationships you have and love the people who are close…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nChasing Mavericks - Aperture of Light<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2012\/11\/chasing-mavericks.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chasing Mavericks - Aperture of Light\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I saw this new surfing movie last night and it really put some things into perspective for me. \u00a0The main character, Jay just has such a giving heart. \u00a0Reflecting on this movie, there were 4 points that were re-emphasized for me: 1. Invest in the relationships you have and love the people who are close…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2012\/11\/chasing-mavericks.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aperture of Light\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-11-03T14:09:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apertureoflight\/files\/2012\/11\/21CHASING1-articleLarge.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cmartin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Chasing Mavericks - Aperture of Light","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2012\/11\/chasing-mavericks.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Chasing Mavericks - Aperture of Light","og_description":"I saw this new surfing movie last night and it really put some things into perspective for me. \u00a0The main character, Jay just has such a giving heart. \u00a0Reflecting on this movie, there were 4 points that were re-emphasized for me: 1. Invest in the relationships you have and love the people who are close…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2012\/11\/chasing-mavericks.html","og_site_name":"Aperture of Light","article_published_time":"2012-11-03T14:09:34+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apertureoflight\/files\/2012\/11\/21CHASING1-articleLarge.jpg"}],"author":"cmartin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2012\/11\/chasing-mavericks.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2012\/11\/chasing-mavericks.html","name":"Chasing Mavericks - Aperture of Light","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2012\/11\/chasing-mavericks.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2012\/11\/chasing-mavericks.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apertureoflight\/files\/2012\/11\/21CHASING1-articleLarge.jpg","datePublished":"2012-11-03T14:09:34+00:00","dateModified":"2012-11-03T14:09:34+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/#\/schema\/person\/93a09375e234ed6bdc57d248e344a7af"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2012\/11\/chasing-mavericks.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2012\/11\/chasing-mavericks.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2012\/11\/chasing-mavericks.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apertureoflight\/files\/2012\/11\/21CHASING1-articleLarge.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apertureoflight\/files\/2012\/11\/21CHASING1-articleLarge.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/2012\/11\/chasing-mavericks.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Chasing Mavericks"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/","name":"Aperture of Light","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Caroline Martin","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/#\/schema\/person\/93a09375e234ed6bdc57d248e344a7af","name":"cmartin","sameAs":["http:\/\/carolinemartinphoto.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/author\/cmartin"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apertureoflight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}