{"id":30,"date":"2008-08-03T09:59:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T08:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-08-03T09:59:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T08:59:55","slug":"going-for-the-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/archives\/30","title":{"rendered":"Going for the Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was looking up at the hills the other day, it suddenly dawned on me that perhaps I have been an 80%&#8217;er in most of my endeavours. \u00a0It is said that the first 80% of the learning for any given field is quick in comparison with the final 20% that can take a lifetime. \u00a0This week as the Olympics begin in Beijing, I will be exploring this idea further. \u00a0What does it take to move beyond 80% and are we guilty of being 80% Christians? \u00a0Are you going for the gold? \u00a0<a title=\"Going for the Gold\" href=\"http:\/\/www.standrewsconiston.org.uk\/Going for the Gold.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read full text now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was looking up at the hills the other day, it suddenly dawned on me that perhaps I have been an 80%&#8217;er in most of my endeavours. \u00a0It is said that the first 80% of the learning for any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/archives\/30\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-encounters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}