{"id":30025,"date":"2016-07-11T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=30025"},"modified":"2016-06-25T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T11:05:00","slug":"oprah-winfrey-harvard-commencement-speech-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/07\/oprah-winfrey-harvard-commencement-speech-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s Harvard Commencement 2013 Inspirational Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oprah Winfrey, who has used her success as a talk show host and media entrepreneur to promote education, civic engagement, and charitable works, addresses graduates at Harvard&#8217;s 362nd Commencement on May 30, 2013 at Tercentenary Theatre.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201dIt doesn\u2019t matter how far you might rise \u2014 at some point, you are bound to stumble. Because if you\u2019re constantly doing what we do \u2014 raising the bar \u2014 if you\u2019re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages predicts that you will, at some point, fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure \u2014 failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GMWFieBGR7c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201dIt doesn\u2019t matter how far you might rise \u2014 at some point, you are bound to stumble. Because if you\u2019re constantly doing what we do \u2014 raising the bar \u2014 if you\u2019re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages predicts that you will, at some point, fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure \u2014 failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}