{"id":87,"date":"2009-06-19T14:39:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T18:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/06\/19\/peaks-and-valleys\/"},"modified":"2014-09-05T11:02:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:02:22","slug":"peaks-and-valleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/06\/19\/peaks-and-valleys\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaks and Valleys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in a valley.<\/p>\n<p>The phone isn&#8217;t ringing, the inbox is empty, uncertainty seems more certain than anything else at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>A valley.<\/p>\n<p>When you find yourself in a valley the best thing to do is nothing. Don&#8217;t fight it. Use it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to grow concerned about the valleys. To worry about whether or not you&#8217;ll ever find your way out. But if I&#8217;ve learned anything in my observation of the chaos we call civilization it&#8217;s that the valleys are as sure to come along as the peaks. And like the peaks, they are only temporary. Also like the peaks, when you&#8217;re in a valley, there is only one direction you can find yourself in when it inevitably ends.<\/p>\n<p>This is not sorrow or a lament. This is reflection. There are many things to do and I am busy doing them in the shadow of whatever peak draws ever closer.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in a valley. The phone isn&#8217;t ringing, the inbox is empty, uncertainty seems more certain than anything else at the moment. A valley. When you find yourself in a valley the best thing to do is nothing. Don&#8217;t fight it. Use it. It&#8217;s easy to grow concerned about the valleys. To worry about whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}