<p>Mike was a world-class downhill skier. He lived and breathed downhill skiing and he has been very successful in his sport. He was a recognized and respected athlete.</p>
<p>One day, everything changed.</p>
<p>He was practicing for his next big race, but all of a sudden he fell down during his exercise. Immediately after he had fallen, Mike knew that something wasn’t right: his left leg felt numb.</p>
<p>Two weeks later, Mike was lying in a hospital bed and his left foot had just been operated on. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2012/09/when-one-door-closes-the-other-one-opens/" title="Permanent Link: When One Door Closes, The Other One Opens" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1650,"date":"2012-09-23T22:41:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T03:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2017-09-29T19:23:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T00:23:38","slug":"when-one-door-closes-the-other-one-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/09\/when-one-door-closes-the-other-one-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"When One Door Closes, The Other One Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike was a world-class downhill skier. He lived and breathed downhill skiing and he has been very successful in his sport. He was a recognized and respected athlete.<\/p>\n<p>One day, everything changed.<\/p>\n<p>He was practicing for his next big race, but all of a sudden he fell down during his exercise. Immediately after he had fallen, Mike knew that something wasn\u2019t right: his left leg felt numb.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks later, Mike was lying in a hospital bed and his left foot had just been operated on. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/09\/when-one-door-closes-the-other-one-opens\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: When One Door Closes, The Other One Opens\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}