{"id":463,"date":"2012-09-06T12:13:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T17:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/?p=463"},"modified":"2012-09-08T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T21:03:26","slug":"transcript-i-married-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/transcript-i-married-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript: I Married Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMarriedAdv.gif\" rel=\"colorbox\" class=\"colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-464\" title=\"I Married Adventure\" src=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMarriedAdv.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"87\" \/><\/a>\u201cAdventure is an attitude, not a behavior,\u201d says Luci Swindoll in her illustrated autobiography\u00a0<em><strong>I Married Adventure: Looking at Life through the Lens of Possibility<\/strong><\/em>. Luci credits her father for giving her a new way of viewing life when she was just ten years old. Their small boat had been hit by a sudden storm on the lake, and Luci was frightened until her daddy told her to remember how she was feeling in that moment so that she could tell everyone about it later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The theater, music, painting, and literature have been a large part of Luci\u2019s seventy years, her age when she authored this book. \u201cThe arts exist inside every human being,\u201d Luci says, \u201cSo, express yourself! Every time we chronicle our thoughts and activities, we are verifying our existence and thanking God we\u2019re alive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Nearly every page of Luci\u2019s memoir is filled with her own artistic efforts to capture the moments of her life. Photographs of her world travels, journal entries, to-do lists, postcards she sent to herself, sketches, poems, memorable quotes, and correspondence from friends remind the reader that seizing each day means being alert, curious, and open-hearted. Luci quotes Diane Sawyer, \u201cThe most important thing in life is to pay attention.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I love Luci\u2019s succinct sayings, wise witticisms, and her passionate imperatives. \u201cSay yes to the unknown. Go the extra mile. Nothing of value can be had for nothing. Never stop asking questions.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>I Married Adventure<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is truly a road map and a reference guide for adventuresome life-travelers, whether or not they already have a spouse.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAdventure is an attitude, not a behavior,\u201d says Luci Swindoll in her illustrated autobiography\u00a0I Married Adventure: Looking at Life through the Lens of Possibility. Luci credits her father for giving her a new way of viewing life when she was just ten years old. Their small boat had been hit by a sudden storm on [&hellip;]&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/transcript-i-married-adventure\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}