{"id":12352,"date":"2011-05-08T07:45:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T12:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12352"},"modified":"2011-05-09T00:04:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T05:04:37","slug":"avoiding-the-downside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12352","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding the downside"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did not go to the Fest yesterday, the reason is simple, Tin needed a day off and a good nap. Everyone and their mother said wake him up and get him out here. But I didn’t. And so the Fest came to me, like a magnet, I walked out on the porch and suddenly, one came then another then another. Happy LaLa Fest.<\/p>\n

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Tin was woken up by his two gal pals – Mignon and Calai (that he pronounces Kell Lay) and how delighted was he? So he put on a show for them with his imaginary trombone. I can see it very clearly now, pretty girls, a bone in hand, oh my – watch out, it’s Superman.<\/p>\n

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It is a human tendency to avoid downside, to sidestep risk, to take the path of least resistance, but I must say that the many times I’ve said yes and the many times I’ve said no have usually yielded the same conclusion for me – I did it my way and it proved to be the right way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did not go to the Fest yesterday, the reason is simple, Tin needed a day off and a good nap. Everyone and their mother said wake him up and get him out here. But I didn’t. And so the Fest came to me, like a magnet, I walked out on the porch and suddenly, one came then another then another. Happy LaLa Fest. Tin was woken up by his two gal pals – Mignon… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-3de","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12352"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12357,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352\/revisions\/12357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}