{"id":20052,"date":"2025-07-15T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20052"},"modified":"2025-07-06T09:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:15:52","slug":"new-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20052","title":{"rendered":"New Tricks"},"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\/2025\/06\/IMG_3376.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" data-attachment-id=\"20005\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=20005\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3376.jpeg?fit=1500%2C2000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1500,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&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;1749213020&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.7649998656528&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0010810810810811&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3376\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3376.jpeg?fit=700%2C933&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3376.jpeg?resize=700%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20005\" style=\"width:434px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3376.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3376.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3376.jpeg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3376.jpeg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3376.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I used to have a sign over my computer that read: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">But lately I sometimes ask myself how many more new tricks I want to learn. <br \/>Wouldn&#8217;t it be easier just to be outdated?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ram_Dass\">Baba Ram Dass<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">American Spiritual Leader<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The photo is of some beautiful variegated leaves in Maine. My blog is an example of a continuous effort to learn \u201cnew tricks.\u201d The software evolves and I attempt to keep up with limited results. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to have a sign over my computer that read: \u201cOLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS.\u201d But lately I sometimes ask myself how many more new tricks I want to learn. Wouldn&#8217;t it be easier just to be outdated? Baba Ram Dass American Spiritual Leader The photo is of some beautiful variegated leaves in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20005,"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":[193],"tags":[132,337,41,1475],"class_list":["post-20052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decline","tag-aging","tag-decline","tag-flowers","tag-ram-dass"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3376.jpeg?fit=1500%2C2000&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5dq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20052","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=20052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20055,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20052\/revisions\/20055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}