{"id":428,"date":"2015-08-06T23:13:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T03:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/?p=428"},"modified":"2015-08-06T23:13:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T03:13:40","slug":"the-life-of-an-alcoholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"The life of an alcoholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/book_had_tobe_there.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-431 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/book_had_tobe_there.jpg\" alt=\"You Had To Be There by Gene Gorman\" width=\"300\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/book_had_tobe_there.jpg 300w, http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/book_had_tobe_there-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You Had To Be There<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A memoir of a miraculous life<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Gene Gorman<\/strong><br \/>\nArchway Publishing<br \/>\n244 Pages, Softcover<br \/>\nArchwaypublishing.com<\/p>\n<p>Self publishing has become easier and less expensive today than in the past as more people put ink to paper to tell their life stories. And while some stories are best left to memory, this is one that has spunk.<\/p>\n<p>Gene Gorman was motivated by poverty, and as an eight-year-old, sold Christmas cards door-to-door so he wouldn\u2019t have to rely on his family for money. This job taught him skills he would use for the rest of his life, which included working as a sales trainer and consultant for some of the largest corporations in the United States, like General Motors and AT&amp;T.<\/p>\n<p>His early days were tough. He learned about alcohol from his mother and became a repeat offender at an alcoholic treatment facility. By 30 years of age, he drank his way through a marriage, lost everything, and became homeless. That was his breaking point where he says he \u201cbecame teachable.\u201d He changed his life after that.<\/p>\n<p>Always a nice addition, there are a good sampling of black and white photographs to depict the author and his family. It\u2019s an interesting story of how one takes tragedy and turns it into success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Had To Be There A memoir of a miraculous life By Gene Gorman Archway Publishing 244 Pages, Softcover Archwaypublishing.com Self publishing has become easier [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/?p=428\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The life of an alcoholic - Active Senior&#039;s Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/?p=428\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The life of an alcoholic - 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