{"id":1354,"date":"2014-12-23T03:12:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T03:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/23\/one-afternoon-stephen-colbert-came-in-to-the\/"},"modified":"2014-12-23T03:12:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T03:12:43","slug":"one-afternoon-stephen-colbert-came-in-to-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/23\/one-afternoon-stephen-colbert-came-in-to-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>One afternoon, Stephen Colbert came in to the office. His show was about to premiere so he hadn\u2019t spent much time in our studio. As he walked past me at my cubicle, he stopped and said, \u201cYou\u2019re a new face, what\u2019s your name?\u201d I didn\u2019t know what to really say, so I replied, \u201cOh, I\u2019m just an intern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colbert looked at me a moment and then said: \u201cJust an intern? Hey, look, everybody starts somewhere. I was just an understudy at one point, but that\u2019s just a point in time. It\u2019s not about where you are now, or even where you hope to go, it\u2019s who you are that matters. I\u2019m Stephen, who are you?\u201d I introduced myself and we shook hands. \u201cDon\u2019t let your place in the world dictate who you are to anyone. We all have the same merit.\u201d Then he was gone, but his words lingered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/splitsider.com\/2014\/12\/one-colbert-nation-under-god-stephen-colbert-is-americas-cool-pastor\/#more-68676\">Splitsider<\/a>\u00a0 (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/eileenoconnell.tumblr.com\/\">eileenoconnell<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>That done fucked me up. T_T<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/shespeakseasy.tumblr.com\/\">shespeakseasy<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The best man.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/loveandasandwich.tumblr.com\/\">loveandasandwich<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One afternoon, Stephen Colbert came in to the office. His show was about to premiere so he hadn\u2019t spent much time in our studio. As he walked past me at my cubicle, he stopped and said, \u201cYou\u2019re a new face, what\u2019s your name?\u201d I didn\u2019t know what to really say, so I replied, \u201cOh, I\u2019m &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/23\/one-afternoon-stephen-colbert-came-in-to-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}