{"id":54745,"date":"2023-01-10T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=54745"},"modified":"2023-01-09T09:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T14:22:49","slug":"qotd-a-useful-life-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/01\/10\/qotd-a-useful-life-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: A useful life lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 25px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>&#8230; it reemphasizes a life lesson that, like all truly useful life lessons, is lethally easy to forget. I&#8217;m not a gambling man, but you can bet the farm and the kids&#8217; college fund on the phrase &#8220;surely they&#8217;d never be dumb enough to ____.&#8221; The very fact that you find yourself thinking &#8220;they&#8217;d never be dumb enough to ____&#8221; is a guarantee that they are, right now, at this very instant, ____.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/the-stakeholder-state\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">-->&#8220;The Stakeholder State&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2020-01-22.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; it reemphasizes a life lesson that, like all truly useful life lessons, is lethally easy to forget. I&#8217;m not a gambling man, but you can bet the farm and the kids&#8217; college fund on the phrase &#8220;surely they&#8217;d never be dumb enough to ____.&#8221; The very fact that you find yourself thinking &#8220;they&#8217;d never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[57,28,53,41,13],"tags":[746,139,1462],"class_list":["post-54745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-gambling","tag-psychology","tag-severian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-eeZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79182,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54745\/revisions\/79182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}