{"id":11984,"date":"2019-12-09T19:37:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=11984"},"modified":"2019-12-10T17:36:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T22:36:06","slug":"people-keep-telling-me-to-shoot-my-shot-but-im-a-coward-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/12\/09\/people-keep-telling-me-to-shoot-my-shot-but-im-a-coward-help\/","title":{"rendered":"People keep telling me to shoot my shot but I&#8217;m a coward. Help."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AW12092019-06.jpg\" alt=\"People keep telling me to shoot my shot but I'm a coward. Help.\" class=\"wp-image-11973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AW12092019-06.jpg 500w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AW12092019-06-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AW12092019-06-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AW12092019-06-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>People keep telling me to shoot my shot but I&#8217;m a coward. Help.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you trust your friends and they are encouraging you, the shot is probably not as risky as it seems.  It may help to lower your expectations of success- that can help you view a small forward step as a success rather than a falling short of your shot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you trust your friends and they are encouraging you, the shot is probably not as risky as it seems. It may help to lower your expectations of success- that can help you view a small forward step as a success rather than a falling short of your shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12013,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions\/12013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}