{"id":2263,"date":"2018-09-08T23:16:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T23:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaciorek.com\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2018-09-08T23:16:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T23:16:21","slug":"john-pacioreks-book-if-i-knew-then-what-i-know-now-preface-and-prelude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.johnpaciorek.com\/?p=2263","title":{"rendered":"John Paciorek&#8217;s Book: If I Knew Then What I Know Now &#8211; Preface and Prelude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Preface, the Prelude includes the CBS Special about Paciorek &#8211; Go to Link!<\/p>\n<p><strong>PREFACE<\/strong><br \/>\nA New Story Begins!<br \/>\nAs I look back, in my seventy-third year, I have come to recognize that I could have felt differently about all my life\u2019s experiences. Would I be in a better place today if I had not (over)reacted to every little episode in my life\u2019s struggle? I now sense that I always had an inherent right to experience my life story in the way that I wanted it to be. I realize that I could have lived with an uncommon understanding that I do \u201ccreate my own reality.\u201d Instead of the irritation I felt toward the impositions that my life encountered, I now know that those perceived obstacles were merely self-imposed challenges that were testing my mind\u2019s resolve. They should have been catalyzing agents to foster the conscious deployment of new ideas through my ever-expanding thought. They could have directed me upon that joyful path I more likely would have preferred. An endless search for a lifetime of peaceful coexistence with myself and the world, I would have co-conspired to create and establish. A joyous living experience might still be realized, and perhaps in a setting not unfamiliar to my present habitation and current perception! Join with me now in a reconstruction of an old adventure\u2014the new purpose of which might be to inspire, in the mind of every reader, the recognition that hope lost can always be revived in the childlike imagination of those individuals not yet adulterated, nor easily discouraged, by the ravages of tragedy or disappointment. If you are hanging on from the lowest rung of a suspended ladder, where else would you go but up? But more than out of sheer necessity, you can climb with joy the \u201cheights of mind\u201d and rest your volatile emotions, or mutable human circumstances, in the tranquil state of a consistently inspired dream. It is with these ideas that I present in this book a new story\u2014one that I have imagined did take place in lieu of my history\u2019s less-than-desirable past. It is one more acceptable, not to the vanity of any former age, but to my heart\u2019s credible new age longing to be in concert with my mind\u2019s exhaustless intent to be\u2014at each succeeding moment\u2014the \u201cbest I can be\u201d: perfect in spirit, mind, body\u2014life\u2019s perpetual\/universal leading-edge demand of self.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRELUDE<\/strong><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.cbs.com\/shows\/cbs_this_morning\/video\/0Gczy9M1_YFSmuahcP_ P6xUS_4ndES8v\/paciorek-s-perfect-mlb-stats-after-one-day-career\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Preface, the Prelude includes the CBS Special about Paciorek &#8211; Go to Link! PREFACE A New Story Begins! As I look back, in my seventy-third year, I have come to recognize that I could have felt differently about all my life\u2019s experiences. Would I be in a better place today if I had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaciorek.com\/?p=2263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Paciorek&#8217;s Book: If I Knew Then What I Know Now &#8211; Preface and Prelude<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnpaciorek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnpaciorek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnpaciorek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnpaciorek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnpaciorek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnpaciorek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnpaciorek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnpaciorek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnpaciorek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnpaciorek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}