{"id":3362,"date":"2015-07-11T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2015-07-11T06:21:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T13:21:09","slug":"did-a-single-decision-change-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/did-a-single-decision-change-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a single decision change your life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Real Simple<\/em> magazine Essay Contest:\u00a0\u00a0 Did a single decision change your life?<\/p>\n<p>Would your world now be completely different\u2014even unthinkable\u2014if, at some point in the past, you hadn\u2019t made a seemingly random choice? Maybe you stayed a few extra minutes at a party\u2014and met your soul mate. Maybe you decided to have lunch with a friend or quit a job or just took the long way home. If you can\u2019t imagine the rest of your life without what happened next, write it down and share it with us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Decision.-July-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3364 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Decision.-July-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Decision. July 2015\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realsimple.com\/magazine-more\/inside-website\/contests-sweepstakes\/life-lessons-essay-contest-rules?xid=rsrd-jun15\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Real Simple\u2019<\/em>s eighth annual Life Lessons Essay Contest<\/a> and you could have your essay published in <em>Real Simple <\/em>magazine and receive a prize of $3,000.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline: September 21, 2015<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamescmarch.com\/JimPhotos\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Jim C. March<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Simple magazine Essay Contest:\u00a0\u00a0 Did a single decision change your life? Would your world now be completely different\u2014even unthinkable\u2014if, at some point in the past, you hadn\u2019t made a seemingly random choice? Maybe you stayed a few extra minutes at a party\u2014and met your soul mate. Maybe you decided to have lunch with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-Se","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}