{"id":227,"date":"2015-11-05T11:13:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T16:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kimcomerford.info\/?p=227"},"modified":"2015-11-05T11:13:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T16:13:59","slug":"good-luck-bad-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kimcomerford.info\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Good Luck, Bad Luck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An old man and his son worked on a small farm with only one horse to pull the plow. One day, the horse ran away.<br \/>\n\u201cHow terrible,\u201d sympathized the neighbors. \u201cWhat bad luck.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWho knows whether it is good luck or bad luck,\u201d the farmer replied.<\/p>\n<p>A week later, the horse returned from the mountains, leading five wild mares into the barn.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat wonderful luck!\u201d said the neighbors.<br \/>\n\u201cGood luck? Bad luck? Who knows?\u201d answered the old man.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, the son, trying to tame one of the horses, fell and broke his leg.<br \/>\n\u201cHow terrible. What bad luck!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cBad luck? Good luck?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The army came to all the farms to take young men for war, but the farmer\u2019s son was of no use to them, so he was spared.<br \/>\n\u201cGood? Bad?\u201d   <\/p>\n<p> ~ An old Chinese story\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You never know when something happens to you, what and where it can lead to. Whatever happens, try not to fight with reality. Accept it. Stay open to all the possible ways it can unfold.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old man and his son worked on a small farm with only one horse to pull the plow. One day, the horse ran away. \u201cHow terrible,\u201d sympathized the neighbors. \u201cWhat bad luck.\u201d \u201cWho knows whether it is good luck &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimcomerford.info\/?p=227\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimcomerford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimcomerford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimcomerford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimcomerford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimcomerford.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimcomerford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimcomerford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimcomerford.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimcomerford.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimcomerford.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}