{"id":717,"date":"2005-10-08T13:59:12","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T11:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/?p=717"},"modified":"2024-11-28T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T07:47:06","slug":"finding-my-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/finding-my-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding my voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-722\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/10\/button_re-start_continue.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-722\" src=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/10\/button_re-start_continue.png\" alt=\"What should I do with my life?\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What should I do with my life?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was up at 1 am this morning reading Po Bronson\u2019s Book \u2013\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Should-Do-My-Life\/dp\/0345485920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What should I do with my life<\/a> &#8211; with questions about the future running around my brain and robbing me of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Po has a well known quote \u201c<em><strong>There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice. Nothing seemed more brave to me than facing up to one\u2019s own identity, and filtering out the chatter that tells us to be someone we\u2019re not.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea of learning to recognize your own voice and identity in a noisy and loud world is a compelling idea. This blog is my small attempt to find and share my voice, thoughts and digital identity amidst the chatter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I was up at 1 am this morning reading Po Bronson\u2019s Book \u2013\u00a0 What should I do with my life &#8211; with questions about the future running around my brain and robbing me of sleep. Po has a well known quote \u201cThere is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/finding-my-voice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finding my voice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[169,168],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discover","tag-book","tag-voice","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5473,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/5473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}