{"id":993,"date":"2006-01-02T08:43:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T06:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=993"},"modified":"2008-07-11T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T07:46:09","slug":"changer-de-vie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/itvs_portraits\/changer-de-vie\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebenswandel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002 when I gave up everything  &#8211;  a dream career in Hong Kong, sick appartment in the 16th floor in Hong Kong&#8217;s SOHO, a secretary twice my age, lots of business travel through Asia, a decent lifestyle &#8211; for a dream, people called me &#8216;nuts&#8217;, today, travelling the world as a kite-professional people call me &#8216;lucky&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Luck is only one tiny part of the equation in my opinion, sheer determination, taking a massive risk, focus, continous hard work, and a great passion for what I do, the remaining &#8216;ingredients to success&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Stance interviewed me to my &#8216;change of life&#8217; a few years ago.  My answers still pretty much account for how I feel and think back then as well as today. Check it out! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002 when I gave up everything &#8211; a dream career in Hong Kong, sick appartment in the 16th floor in Hong Kong&#8217;s SOHO, a secretary twice my age, lots of business travel through Asia, a decent lifestyle &#8211; for a dream, people called me &#8216;nuts&#8217;, today, travelling the world as a kite-professional people call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,46],"tags":[257,258,76,255,145,260,261,259,118],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itvs_portraits","category-various","tag-career","tag-dream","tag-hong-kong","tag-kite-pro-life","tag-kitesurf-professional","tag-skateboarding","tag-skydiving","tag-snowboarding","tag-stance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}