{"id":1176,"date":"2021-12-17T07:12:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T13:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2021-12-17T07:12:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T13:12:41","slug":"the-wings-up-way-find-solutions-not-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/the-wings-up-way-find-solutions-not-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wings Up Way &#8211; Find solutions, not excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">We <strong>will<\/strong> work hard to find solutions, not excuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It is easy to be a critic of ourselves and others. It is hard to match each of our criticisms with a solution. It\u2019s easy to see limitations and obstacles. It is hard to turn negative situations into opportunities. But to be successful in service to our students and each other, we need solutions, not excuses. Don\u2019t settle for mediocre. In this last principle most of all, we need bold, fearless and confident spirits to tackle problems and knock down barriers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tntech.yuja.com\/V\/Video?v=4035576&amp;node=13629192&amp;a=1979577745&amp;autoplay=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1160\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/11\/pres-video-1024x580.png\" alt=\"President Video Thumbnail\" width=\"696\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/11\/pres-video-1024x580.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/11\/pres-video-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/11\/pres-video-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/11\/pres-video-696x394.png 696w, https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/11\/pres-video-1068x605.png 1068w, https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/11\/pres-video-742x420.png 742w, https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/11\/pres-video.png 1116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will work hard to find solutions, not excuses. It is easy to be a critic of ourselves and others. It is hard to match each of our criticisms with a solution. It\u2019s easy to see limitations and obstacles. It is hard to turn negative situations into opportunities. But to be successful in service to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-messages"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/11\/OCM058-PRNT-22-Wings-Up-Way-Flier_Proof-3-copy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}