{"id":90,"date":"2019-07-30T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pollinatorthereskonrad.wordpress.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2019-07-30T06:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T06:22:00","slug":"the-orange-girl-a-book-by-jostein-gaarder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Blog post #6: A matter of attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Compared to <em>Sophie\u00b4s world<\/em>, Jostein Gaarder\u00b4s book <em>The Orange Girl<\/em> is a rather thin one &#8211; but carrying a message which turned into a guiding principle of my life. Without wanting to reveal too much, let me say that I closed this book with a smile. Despite the fact that it is about a letter a dying father wrote to his later son. He won\u00b4t be able to give the right answers to his coming-of-age son. However, he can try to ask the right questions &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"689\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/apathy_image_website.png?w=689\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/apathy_image_website.png 689w, https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/apathy_image_website-295x300.png 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><figcaption>by <a href=\"https:\/\/ciccaboom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Chiara Ciccarello (opens in a new tab)\">Chiara Ciccarello<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In &#8222;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"What I want to spend my life with (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/pollinatorthereskonrad.wordpress.com\/what-i-like-to-spend-my-life-with\/\" target=\"_blank\">What I want to spend my life with<\/a>&#8220; I mentioned that a question occupying my mind is how we can move from apathy to proactivity, or to co-creativity. The &#8222;right&#8220; <em>attitude<\/em> is central, in my mind, to make this jump. To me, life is a gift. Every day a new adventure. <em>Lucky me<\/em>, I WANT to say each day to myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Books like <em>The Orange Girl<\/em> supported me in this <em>worldview<\/em>. Have you ever wondered where your attitude &#8222;comes from&#8220;? Open invitation to self-reflection \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to Sophie\u00b4s world, Jostein Gaarder\u00b4s book The Orange Girl is a rather thin one &#8211; but carrying a message which turned into a guiding principle of my life. Without wanting to reveal too much, let me say that I closed this book with a smile. Despite the fact that it is about a letter&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/?p=90\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog post #6: A matter of attitude<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attitude-matters","category-non-human-inspiration","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}