{"id":15786,"date":"2016-09-11T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/?p=15786"},"modified":"2016-09-11T06:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T11:00:27","slug":"through-her-big-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2016\/09\/11\/through-her-big-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Through Her Big Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She had been trying so hard. She was bound and determined. They may be big and fast, but she is so confident that she is huge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Always the last one. Little legs can easily fail you. But she just kept trying. Determination convinced her of Olympic gold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when she turned around and saw her. Everyone was going to make it. Gold, silver and bronze. But what is earned for fourth place?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the blink of an eye she did a 180. The finish line within fingertips. That&#8217;s when she discovered the real race. And that&#8217;s when she gave up the gold to go encourage her little sister&#8217;s pursuit of bronze.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t have to. Long legs and experience almost always win.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But her beautifully compassionate heart stooped low to go back for the smallest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I only caught it in a flash. She wasn&#8217;t doing it for anyone but just her sister. Her precious cheers of encouragement. And as they approached the finish line, Rachael hit the brakes and let Eden win her accomplishment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was no prize for fourth place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; No prize except for a full heart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/img_6654.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/img_6654.jpg\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15784\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/img_6657.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/img_6657.jpg\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15785\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Oh the lessons He teaches me through her big heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Treasuring it all in my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She had been trying so hard. She was bound and determined. They may be big and fast, but she is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}