{"id":13,"date":"2012-06-12T06:31:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T06:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2016-07-26T15:26:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T15:26:18","slug":"making-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/making-of-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"MAKING OF THE BOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To understand why I started working on this book, we must travel back a few years. About a decade ago, I took up rowing as a sport. I captained the Sify Rowing Team where we competed at the Merchants &amp; Bankers Regatta at Madras Boat Club. We came up against stiff competition and overcame all that to win a record-breaking 4 championship titles. That rowing stint alone taught me more about life, team work, motivation and the sheer hunger to succeed more than any college education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sports is not just about playing but a highly influential teacher. To me, Olympics has been a huge inspirational force. Its an event I look forward and on that month of the Games, I truly immerse myself and soak up life lessons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This book is a fruit of years of passionately following the games. Its consists of the most inspiring life-lessons that we can learn from Olympians to succeed in our lives. I have dug deep and looked for amazing acts of grit, perseverance, sportsmanship, overcoming failures, goal setting and execution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To me, this book is just a by-product. Its the perfect excuse I needed to research deep into Olympic history and learn from the amazing sports persons. For me, its the journey I wanted to enjoy and learn from. This book is a beautiful bonus!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Kiruba Shankar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand why I started working on this book, we must travel back a few years. About a decade ago, I took up rowing as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}