{"id":5634,"date":"2021-06-14T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5634"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","slug":"admitting-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5634","title":{"rendered":"ADMITTING DEFEAT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a first this blog just allowed the internet to swallow what I was writing for the day. No trace is left. And I am just too tired to start over. I suppose it is a sign of wisdom and maturity to know when to just admit defeat and head off to bed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #181818\">\u201cWhile one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.\u201d<br style=\"background-color: white;color: #181818\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #181818\">\u2015\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"authorOrTitle\" style=\"background-color: white;color: #333333\">Maya Angelou<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"authorOrTitle\" style=\"background-color: white;color: #333333\"><i>I encountered a defeat tonight, but I am far from defeated!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"authorOrTitle\" style=\"background-color: white;color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia;font-size: large\"><span style=\"color: #181818\">\u201cDefeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818\"><span style=\"color: #181818\">\u2015\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"authorOrTitle\">George E. Woodberry<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"authorOrTitle\" style=\"background-color: white;color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia;font-size: large\"><span class=\"authorOrTitle\"><i>And I DID try!<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first this blog just allowed the internet to swallow what I was writing for the day. No trace is left. And I am just too tired to start over. I suppose it is a sign of wisdom and maturity to know when to just admit defeat and head off to bed.\u00a0 \u201cWhile one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5635,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions\/5635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}