{"id":2373,"date":"2012-06-09T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2012-06-09T19:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T00:00:54","slug":"j-k-rowlings-2008-harvard-commencement-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"J.K. ROWLING&#8217;S 2008 HARVARD COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for this remarkable speech J.K. Rowling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement\" width=\"490\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wHGqp8lz36c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.&#8221;-J.K. Rowling<\/p>\n<p>Via:<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2008\/06\/the-fringe-benefits-failure-the-importance-imagination\">Harvard Magazine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=2373' data-title='J.K. ROWLING&#8217;S 2008 HARVARD COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=2373' data-title='J.K. ROWLING&#8217;S 2008 HARVARD COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for this remarkable speech J.K. Rowling&#8230; &#8220;So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/2376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}