{"id":110,"date":"2010-04-22T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowyouknowabout.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2015-09-07T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T14:03:48","slug":"the-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nowyouknowabout.com\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"The Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"

X Factor winner Joe (how long will he last?) sings about the uphill struggle, viz \u2018ain\u2019t about how fast I get there, ain\u2019t about what\u2019s waiting on the other side\u2026\u2026\u2026it\u2019s the CLIMB<\/em>.\u00a0 Now that<\/span>\u2019s a good attitude for children to pick up.<\/p>\n

But I am not sure Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (first men up Everest, 1953) would have agreed.\u00a0 No oxygen and 29,000 feet can\u2019t be that much fun.\u00a0 But what counts is the tenacity and the determination, qualities that are still totally admired today.\u00a0 Making films about famous figures who\u2019ve shaped the world, as we do, I\u2019ve become really aware that they all share these qualities.\u00a0 Marie Curie, tired and sweaty, boiling up rocks to find her radium, Columbus hawking his \u2018what\u2019s-across-the Atlantic?\u2019 idea until he found a buyer, Rembrandt still painting flat-out when bankrupt and weeping for his dead wife \u2013 the universal message?\u00a0 Don\u2019t give up, keep going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X Factor winner Joe (how long will he last?) sings about the uphill struggle, viz \u2018ain\u2019t about how fast I get there, ain\u2019t about what\u2019s waiting on the other side\u2026\u2026\u2026it\u2019s the CLIMB.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n