{"id":18915,"date":"2024-07-25T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=18915"},"modified":"2024-07-14T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T16:20:30","slug":"the-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=18915","title":{"rendered":"The Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1073-scaled.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"18916\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=18916\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1073-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1763&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1763\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 15 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1716965529&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;15.659999847383&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015267175572519&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1073\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1073-scaled.jpeg?fit=700%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1073.jpeg?resize=700%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18916\" style=\"width:428px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1073-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C705&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1073-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1073-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C529&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1073-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1058&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1073-scaled.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1073-scaled.jpeg?w=2100&amp;ssl=1 2100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cWhen you lose, don\u2019t lose the lesson.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Aloysius Pendergast<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another great quote from the Pendergast novels by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=preston+and+child+pendergast+series&amp;crid=PFCR71CNPMG0&amp;sprefix=Preston+%2Caps%2C203&amp;ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_8\">Preston and Child.\u00a0<\/a>The books make wonderful summer reading. They have little redeeming intellectual value but are very engaging. You can read one in a day or two. Think Louis Lamour or Earle Stanley Gardener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We got back from Italy at the height of this years Saguaro bloom and then I got Covid and missed most of it.  This is my iconic picture from this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen you lose, don\u2019t lose the lesson.\u201d Aloysius Pendergast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18916,"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":[8],"tags":[72,719,61,477,1352],"class_list":["post-18915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-maxim","tag-birds","tag-cacti","tag-maxim","tag-moon","tag-pendergast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1073-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1763&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-4V5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915","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=18915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18929,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915\/revisions\/18929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}