{"id":108,"date":"2010-04-16T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowyouknowabout.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2015-09-07T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T14:00:48","slug":"x-factor-lessons-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nowyouknowabout.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"X-Factor lessons in life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl Cole \u2013 a sage for our times. \u00a0 After listening to \u2018Fight For This Love\u2019\u00a0 for the thousandth time (\u2018<em>turn it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">up<\/span>, Mum\u2019) <\/em>I\u2019ve got the message : <em>\u2018Anything that\u2019s worth having is sure enough worth fighting for.\u00a0 Quittin\u2019s out of the question \u2013 when it gets tough you gotta fight some more\u2019<\/em> .\u00a0 That\u2019s what I call a positive approach to life.\u00a0 Nelson Mandela, Ernest Shackleton, Charles Darwin, William Wilberforce, the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae \u2013 there\u2019s a ton of legendary figures for whom quittin\u2019 was out of the question.\u00a0 One of our films is about Galileo, the 16<sup>th<\/sup> century Italian scientist and astronomer.\u00a0 He was up in front of the Grand Inquisition for what he believed in (the earth goes round the sun) and he didn\u2019t\u2019 give up.\u00a0 The uphill struggle stiffens resolve, obviously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl Cole \u2013 a sage for our times. \u00a0 After listening to \u2018Fight For This Love\u2019\u00a0 for the thousandth time (\u2018turn it up, Mum\u2019) I\u2019ve got the message : \u2018Anything that\u2019s worth having is sure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - 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