{"id":20392,"date":"2025-11-03T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20392"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:21:09","slug":"success-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20392","title":{"rendered":"Success in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cSuccess is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Collier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are just home from our trip to Japan and so this month the photos and maxims will have a Japanese theme. The photo is a photo of some granite carved baby Buddhas. (I just learned how to spell Buddha. I might have been spelling it wrong for 70 years.) The preservation of old idols is a growing business in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BTW I would like to stipulate that we had a great trip, with excellent travel companions, we saw some wonderful things and learned a lot. I am going to have to take some time to digest all we saw and experienced. I hope this series of posts and reminiscences will help me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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