{"id":1818,"date":"2009-05-25T06:47:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2009-05-25T06:47:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T14:47:18","slug":"low-expectations-revised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1818","title":{"rendered":"Low Expectations Revised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have often said that: <strong>&#8220;The Key to Happiness is Low Expectations.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is an excellent conversation starter and a reasonably applicable mantra.\u00a0 Yesterday at LAX I said it to a\u00a0 Southwest Airlines pilot while waiting in line at Starbucks.\u00a0 He though for a few seconds and then retorted: <strong>&#8220;except with regard to airplane maintenance.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I stand corrected.\u00a0 Posts from Santa Fe, the reason we were at LAX, \u00a0to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have often said that: &#8220;The Key to Happiness is Low Expectations.&#8221; It is an excellent conversation starter and a reasonably applicable mantra.\u00a0 Yesterday at LAX I said it to a\u00a0 Southwest Airlines pilot while waiting in line at Starbucks.\u00a0 He though for a few seconds and then retorted: &#8220;except with regard to airplane maintenance.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-tk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}