{"id":21669,"date":"2013-06-03T16:12:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T20:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21669"},"modified":"2013-06-03T16:12:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T20:12:35","slug":"oprah-to-harvard-grads-learn-from-your-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21669","title":{"rendered":"Oprah To Harvard Grads: Learn From Your Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The invitation from Harvard University caught <strong>Oprah Winfrey<\/strong> at a low point. Her new TV network was struggling, branded a flop in the media, when Harvard President <strong>Drew Gilpin Faust<\/strong> called last year to ask Winfrey to address 2013 graduates.<\/p>\n<p>The request came \u201cin the very moment when I had stopped succeeding,\u201d <strong>Winfrey<\/strong> recalled.<\/p>\n<p>She headed for a long shower to think (\u201cIt was either that or a bag of Oreos,\u201d she joked) and emerged resolved to change her story by the time her speech rolled around.<\/p>\n<p>A year later,<strong> Winfrey<\/strong> said, her Oprah Winfrey Network has found its footing and her approach to facing setbacks had been validated. Stumbles are inevitable but not permanent, <strong>Winfrey<\/strong> told graduates Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want you to remember this: There is no such thing as failure,\u201d she said. \u201cFailure is just life trying to move us in another direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invitation from Harvard University caught Oprah Winfrey at a low point. Her new TV network was struggling, branded a flop in the media, when Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust called last year to ask Winfrey to address 2013 graduates. The request came \u201cin the very moment when I had stopped succeeding,\u201d Winfrey recalled. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}