{"id":2153,"date":"2009-01-29T21:10:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T03:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2009-01-30T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T18:24:50","slug":"closer-to-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=2153","title":{"rendered":"Closer to the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2C52wsxuZT0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2C52wsxuZT0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Got home from the second LW session in Topeka today.  Except for being under the weather, I was totally tickled.  We talked about the NFL (Non-Negotiable For Leaders) characteristics during the first half of today&#8217;s session.  Guess what the theme for NFL is&#8230;  You will never believe it.  It&#8217;s <em>Closer to the Heart<\/em>!  LOL.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And the men who hold high places<br \/>\nMust be the ones to start<br \/>\nTo mold a new reality<br \/>\nCloser to the heart<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first stanza of the song (above) was quoted by our COO in the beginning of the presentation.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but I just love Rush.  Brian hates them, so he always makes fun of me when I turn up the volume on the radio whenever I hear a Rush song playing.  You have no idea how amused I am that they picked a Rush song for the NFL theme.  What is even more serendipitous is that the <em>Closer to the Heart<\/em> single was released in 1977, the year I was born.  Maybe it&#8217;s a sign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got home from the second LW session in Topeka today. Except for being under the weather, I was totally tickled. We talked about the NFL (Non-Negotiable For Leaders) characteristics during the first half of today&#8217;s session. Guess what the theme for NFL is&#8230; You will never believe it. It&#8217;s Closer to the Heart! LOL. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[281],"tags":[2493,321,282,320,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}