{"id":11612,"date":"2024-07-13T16:48:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T16:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11612"},"modified":"2024-07-13T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T16:57:19","slug":"lets-hear-it-for-the-quitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11612","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s hear it for the quitters!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/07\/13\/lets-hear-it-for-the-quitters\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/07\/13\/lets-hear-it-for-the-quitters\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just walk away Ren\u00e9! The philosopher George Costanza, that reincarnation of Thomas Aquinas, could brag that he was descended \u201cfrom a long line of quitters.\u201d As an anti- anti-hero, he was a living refutation of that over-used encomium, \u201cThere\u2019s no quit in him.\u201d\u00a0 Why do we admire Cool Hand Luke for getting up only to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/07\/13\/lets-hear-it-for-the-quitters\/ Just walk away Ren\u00e9! The philosopher George Costanza, that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":9711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11613,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612\/revisions\/11613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}