Food Job & other mistakes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Shelby Dee I think Mama told you all that I recently ran my first marathon. It was the accomplishment of a goal I set three years ago. The marathon I\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Food Job & other mistakes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Shelby Dee I think Mama told you all that I recently ran my first marathon. It was the accomplishment of a goal I set three years ago. The marathon I\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Karen Spears Zacharias\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-01-02T23:05:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/files\/2012\/01\/marathon_feet_big.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Karen Spears Zacharias\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Karen Spears Zacharias\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/\",\"name\":\"Food Job & other mistakes\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-01-02T23:05:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-01-02T23:05:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/#\/schema\/person\/056f664f04daf9c93a480eeaeb268135\"},\"description\":\"By Shelby Dee I think Mama told you all that I recently ran my first marathon. It was the accomplishment of a goal I set three years ago. The marathon I\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Food Job & other mistakes\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/\",\"name\":\"Karen Spears Zacharias\",\"description\":\"Real stories about real people and the issues that really matter to them.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/#\/schema\/person\/056f664f04daf9c93a480eeaeb268135\",\"name\":\"Karen Spears Zacharias\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1fa535610160f34e64bf5b5d5d99318?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1fa535610160f34e64bf5b5d5d99318?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Karen Spears Zacharias\"},\"description\":\"Author. Speaker. Journalism Instructor. Four kids. Three dogs. One grandson.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/author\/karenspearszacharias\/\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Food Job & other mistakes","description":"By Shelby Dee I think Mama told you all that I recently ran my first marathon. It was the accomplishment of a goal I set three years ago. The marathon I","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Food Job & other mistakes","og_description":"By Shelby Dee I think Mama told you all that I recently ran my first marathon. It was the accomplishment of a goal I set three years ago. The marathon I","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/","og_site_name":"Karen Spears Zacharias","article_published_time":"2012-01-02T23:05:10+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/files\/2012\/01\/marathon_feet_big.jpg"}],"author":"Karen Spears Zacharias","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Karen Spears Zacharias","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/","name":"Food Job & other mistakes","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-01-02T23:05:10+00:00","dateModified":"2012-01-02T23:05:10+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/#\/schema\/person\/056f664f04daf9c93a480eeaeb268135"},"description":"By Shelby Dee I think Mama told you all that I recently ran my first marathon. It was the accomplishment of a goal I set three years ago. The marathon I","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Food Job & other mistakes"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/","name":"Karen Spears Zacharias","description":"Real stories about real people and the issues that really matter to them.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/#\/schema\/person\/056f664f04daf9c93a480eeaeb268135","name":"Karen Spears Zacharias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1fa535610160f34e64bf5b5d5d99318?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1fa535610160f34e64bf5b5d5d99318?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Karen Spears Zacharias"},"description":"Author. Speaker. Journalism Instructor. Four kids. Three dogs. One grandson.","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/author\/karenspearszacharias\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":3348,"date":"2012-01-02T23:05:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T23:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2012-01-02T23:05:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T23:05:10","slug":"food-job-other-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/01\/02\/food-job-other-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Job & other mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

$\"\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

By Shelby Dee<\/p>\n

I think Mama told you all that I recently ran my first marathon. It was the accomplishment of a goal I set three years ago. The marathon I chose to run was a point-to-point race. So there weren\u2019t a lot of people cheering us on along the way.<\/p>\n

But I kept my phone with me and texted Mama nearly every mile. She\u2019d text back too. She and Dad even filmed video messages at one point. I told you, I wasn\u2019t trying to win the race. But I gotta tell you, some of the texts I received were so funny.<\/p>\n

The last seven miles were pretty tough for me. My feet hurt. My hips hurt. I was hot. Putting one foot in front of the other was getting difficult. And all I wanted was to be done with it already.<\/p>\n

As I was completing my last mile, texts from Mama became more frequent. And then I got this one: Food Job!<\/p>\n

I knew she meant \u201cGood job\u201d but her mistake made me forget about the blisters on my feet and the burn in my muscles and the aches in my joints for just a moment. She made me laugh and run harder toward the finish line just around the corner.<\/p>\n

Sometimes in our worst moments it helps to look for joy. And sometimes when we think we\u2019ve made a mistake, that mistake can lead us places we never thought we\u2019d go. I wouldn\u2019t have smiled or laughed if Mama had sent her intended text. I\u2019d already received dozens of similar encouraging texts. My inbox was nearly full of them. But somehow she hit the wrong key and a \u201cFood Job\u201d was just the right kind of encouragement I needed to finish the race with a smile.<\/p>\n

I hope in 2012 we all look for the reasons to smile, and we remember: Food Job \u2013 not all the typos we make in life are truly mistakes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"