{"id":18468,"date":"2024-03-27T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=18468"},"modified":"2024-03-15T14:19:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T21:19:31","slug":"serendipity-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=18468","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You can’t plan for serendipity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you can leave space for it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is another of a continuing series of posts about serendipity.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon and Serendipity are alliterative and I should be able to make a nice motto out of them but the only one I’ve come up with so far is “Simon Seeks Serendipity.” Which doesn’t work because serendipity has to find you. The very seeking of a serendipitous moment makes it less serendipitous. It requires more work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile you can admire me holding the moon in my hand, Photo credit Mike C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can’t plan for serendipity But you can leave space for it. This is another of a continuing series of posts about serendipity. Simon and Serendipity are alliterative and I should be able to make a nice motto out of them but the only one I’ve come up with so far is “Simon Seeks Serendipity.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[24,8,19],"tags":[61,1091,560],"class_list":["post-18468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mt-whitney","category-weekly-maxim","category-travel","tag-maxim","tag-piestewa","tag-serendipity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_9585-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-4NS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18468","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=18468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18470,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18468\/revisions\/18470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}