{"id":12803,"date":"2020-06-29T21:57:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T03:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=12803"},"modified":"2020-06-29T22:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T04:00:22","slug":"be-the-best-of-whatever-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/be-the-best-of-whatever-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Be The Best Of Whatever You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you can\u2019t be a pine on top of the hill,<br>Be a scrub in the valley \u2014 but be<br>The best little scrub by the side of the rill;<br>Be a bush if you can\u2019t be a tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can\u2019t be a bush be a bit of the grass,<br>And some highway happier make;<br>If you can\u2019t be a muskie then just be a bass \u2014<br>But the liveliest bass in the lake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can\u2019t all be captains, we\u2019ve got to be crew,<br>There\u2019s something for all of us here,<br>There\u2019s big work to do, and there\u2019s lesser to do,<br>And the task you must do is near.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can\u2019t be a highway then just be a trail,<br>If you can\u2019t be the sun be a star;<br>It isn\u2019t by size that you win or you fail \u2014<br>Be the best of whatever you are!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                                                    -Douglas Malloch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read this poem today for the first time and LOVED it and its message!  Always be the best of whatever you are!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have an AWESOME day everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Awesome-Looks-Like-Business\/dp\/1946633763\">What Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business &amp; Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can\u2019t be a pine on top of the hill,Be a scrub in the valley \u2014 but beThe best little scrub by the side of the rill;Be a bush if you can\u2019t be a tree. If you can\u2019t be a bush be a bit of the grass,And some highway happier make;If you can\u2019t be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,8797,23850,23851,10754,23852,23853,23855,23854,3157,13301,112,19932],"class_list":["post-12803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-be-the-best","tag-be-the-best-of-whatever-you-are","tag-bloom-where-you-are-planted","tag-do-it-well","tag-dont-try-to-be-something-else","tag-embrace-your-own-unique-abilities","tag-embrace-your-role","tag-everyone-has-a-role-to-play","tag-excel","tag-give-110","tag-self-improvement","tag-what-awesome-looks-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12805,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions\/12805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}