{"id":401,"date":"2005-01-21T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/?p=401"},"modified":"2005-01-21T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T21:39:00","slug":"sark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/2005\/01\/21\/sark\/","title":{"rendered":"Sark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>From the Book &#8220;Inspiration Sandwich&#8221; by SARK<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I love it when people say, &#8220;You can&#8217;t do that.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>It&#8217;s like hearing &#8220;I dare you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I went to Europe alone at age 19, these same people said, &#8220;Switzerland is very expensive. You can&#8217;t expect to live there.&#8221; So of course, I went to Switzerland immediately, and met a man in Zermatt looking for a housesitter for his chalet that had just been built into the side of a mountain, accessible only by chairlift.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, in the Bahamas, I had no money, and was tired of sleeping in the lounge chairs by the pool. I went to one of the big hotels and asked to see the manager. I told him that I would like to babysit or teach swimming in exchange for a room. He just looked at me, and then reached into a drawer, took out a set of keys and pushed them across the desk. &#8220;Take these. I was young and broke once too.&#8221; The keys opened the door to a penthouse on the top floor. I lived there for a month.<\/p>\n<p>I like to take the impossibles and make them possible.<br \/>\n<br \/>I believe that we need to go to where we want to be, and the resources will follow us.<br \/>\n<br \/>Impossible means I&#8217;m possible!<br \/>\n<br \/>Plant all your impossible gardens and see what blooms!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Book &#8220;Inspiration Sandwich&#8221; by SARK I love it when people say, &#8220;You can&#8217;t do that.&#8221; It&#8217;s like hearing &#8220;I dare you.&#8221; When I went to Europe alone at age 19, these same people said, &#8220;Switzerland is very expensive. You can&#8217;t expect to live there.&#8221; So of course, I went to Switzerland immediately, and [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}