{"id":90818,"date":"2015-06-02T09:31:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T07:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/90818\/starting-something-bigger-than-yourself-3\/"},"modified":"2015-06-02T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T13:38:43","slug":"starting-something-bigger-than-yourself-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2015\/06\/02\/starting-something-bigger-than-yourself-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStarting something bigger than yourself\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roarke Lessing, station manager of Edenvale Radio, was the guest speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Lessing shared his journey with the business fraternity, on how he made his way to the top by following his dreams.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>His struggle was compounded by having to deal with Attention Deficiency Disorder (ADD). This complicated focusing on the smaller day to day tasks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_216091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216091\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/benonicitytimes.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/06\/Annmarie-Truter-Theo-Truter-Keith-Roberts-Roarke-Lessing-and-Brigitte-Thysse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-216091\" src=\"https:\/\/benonicitytimes.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/06\/Annmarie-Truter-Theo-Truter-Keith-Roberts-Roarke-Lessing-and-Brigitte-Thysse-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"From left: Annmarie Truter, Theo Truter, Keith Roberts, Roarke Lessing and Brigitte Thysse\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Annmarie Truter, Theo Truter, Keith Roberts, Roarke Lessing and Brigitte Thysse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He then made the decision to start something bigger than himself.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI had a dream and it was bigger than me, which eventually led to my success,\u201d said Lessing.<\/p>\n<p>Lessing said those who are looking to boost their business, should consider networking.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='d30b8fb43acb45b8ffb80e6afd000785'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hirsch\u2019s Meadowdale recently hosted a networking session entitled \u201cStarting something bigger than yourself\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":90877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[7546,3392,7547],"class_list":["post-90818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-edenvale-radio","tag-hirschs","tag-roarke-lessing"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Edenvale Radio","Hirsch's","Roarke Lessing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}