{"id":785,"date":"2006-03-14T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=785"},"modified":"2006-03-14T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T19:25:00","slug":"where-will-your-passion-take-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/where-will-your-passion-take-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Where will your passion take you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.wordpress.com\">Scoble<\/A> talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.wordpress.com\/2006\/03\/14\/overwhelmed-with-pitches-dave-say-it-isnt-so\/\">SXSW<\/A> and the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/A>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last night I heard Jimmy Wales speak. He told his secret. Why he started Wikipedia. He made me cry. You see, last night we were speaking as part of the 20\u00c3\u20142 event. 20 speakers. Two minutes each on stage. To answer this question: what is the secret?<br \/>\nHis secret? He was gonna be cute, he told us. Say something funny about how Wikipedia knew his secret. But, he thought he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d ask his five-year-old daughter. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any secrets, dad,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she answered back. But, alas, she turned out to be Jimmy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s secret in the end. See, when she was born she was in a world of hurt. I forget the disease\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name. You know when you have something you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in a world of hurt. She was given 1 in 3 odds of living. Jimmy did some research on the Internet and learned everything he could about that strange disease and found one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading doctors. He tried an experimental treatment. Only 50% had lived through that so far. The doctor put some new, experimental, protein-based fluid into her lungs and flushed them out. Turned out she lived, and the story ends happily. Jimmy told us that he wanted everyone in the world to be able to find information on things like his daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s diseases and find the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s experts on them. The day he got his daughter home from the hospital is the day Jimmy started Wikipedia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is your passion? Where will it take you today? How will it affect your life and change you? How can you make your passion my passion and vice-versa?<br \/>\n<i>Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks<\/i><br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;re passionate about something, you&#8217;ll live it. You&#8217;ll breathe it. You&#8217;ll die for it. And your passion will be evident to everyone around you.<br \/>\n<i>And they saw that they were just ordinary unschooled men, who had been with Jesus<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scoble talks about SXSW and the founder of Wikipedia. Last night I heard Jimmy Wales speak. He told his secret. Why he started Wikipedia. He made me cry. You see, last night we were speaking as part of the 20\u00c3\u20142 event. 20 speakers. Two minutes each on stage. To answer this question: what is the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/where-will-your-passion-take-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where will your passion take you?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-cF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}