{"id":28368,"date":"2026-04-20T18:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28368"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:08:31","slug":"always-there-must-be-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28368","title":{"rendered":"Always, there must be risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Success is problematic. As soon as you get something working well, you become nestled in a very comfortable plateau.<\/p>\n<p>The tendency is to stay within the warm embrace of that plateau, savoring the sweet taste of success. But that, of course, is a trap.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, despite the siren call of successes safely achieved, you must row against the tide. Embrace the possibility of failure, be the agent of your own potential cataclysm.<\/p>\n<p>Always, there must be risk. Without the possibility of failure, success is but a hollow victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Success is problematic. As soon as you get something working well, you become nestled in a very comfortable plateau. The tendency is to stay within the warm embrace of that plateau, savoring the sweet taste of success. But that, of course, is a trap. Somehow, despite the siren call of successes safely achieved, you must &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28368\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Always, there must be risk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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\/28368"}],"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=28368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28369,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28368\/revisions\/28369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}