{"id":6091,"date":"2014-01-03T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2014-01-03T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T16:52:09","slug":"courage-and-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/courage-and-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage and luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dialog from Nadine Gordimer&#8217;s novel, <i>A Guest of Honour<\/i> (page 222):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018Why does playing safe always seem to turn out to be so dangerous?\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018It\u2019s unlucky . . .<br \/>\n. . . because you\u2019re too scared to take a chance.\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018It\u2019s unlucky to lack courage?\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018That\u2019s it.\u00a0 You have to go ahead into what\u2019s coming, trust to luck.\u00a0 Because if you play safe you don\u2019t have any, anyway.\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018It\u2019s forfeited?\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018Yes.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dialog from Nadine Gordimer&#8217;s novel, A Guest of Honour (page 222): \u2018Why does playing safe always seem to turn out to be so dangerous?\u2019 \u2018It\u2019s unlucky . . . . . . because you\u2019re too scared to take a chance.\u2019 \u2018It\u2019s unlucky to lack courage?\u2019 \u2018That\u2019s it.\u00a0 You have to go ahead into what\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-human-intelligence","p1","y2014","m01","d03","h16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}