{"id":28093,"date":"2025-12-30T17:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28093"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:12:16","slug":"life-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28093","title":{"rendered":"Life lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were talking today about life lessons. One of the people in the conversation said, ruefully, &#8220;The lesson you learn is never the lesson that you want to learn. Why is that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think,&#8221; I said, also ruefully, &#8220;it&#8217;s because you already know the lesson that you want to learn.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were talking today about life lessons. One of the people in the conversation said, ruefully, &#8220;The lesson you learn is never the lesson that you want to learn. Why is that?&#8221; &#8220;I think,&#8221; I said, also ruefully, &#8220;it&#8217;s because you already know the lesson that you want to learn.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28093"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28094,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28093\/revisions\/28094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}