{"id":2568,"date":"2008-08-19T19:45:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T00:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2008-08-19T19:45:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T00:45:20","slug":"falling-is-part-of-the-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/falling-is-part-of-the-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling is Part of the Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dream that I was in a conversation with a very wise man. <\/p>\n<p>He was a circus clown, an acrobat with giant shoes. He had just finished his act: falling short of the trapeze several times before finally spinning four times and grabbing the bar then executing a double flip with a twist as he returned to the first trapeze. His final display had the whole audience standing applauding and laughing.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the troop was less pleased with his act than the audience. I was on the side of the audience.<\/p>\n<p>The well-sequined straight acting acrobats had done a series of daring if slightly conservative and predictable moves. One had fallen. One had nearly slipped. None fell like the clown who had flailed like a plucked chicken and hooted at each of his falls and at his success as well.<\/p>\n<p>The clown, an Emmett Kelly clone, looked at me sadly and said, &#8220;My colleagues don&#8217;t get it. They try really hard, but they never see that falling is the most important part of the act.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dream that I was in a conversation with a very wise man. He was a circus clown, an acrobat with giant shoes. He had just finished his act: falling short of the trapeze several times before finally spinning four times and grabbing the bar then executing a double flip with a twist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}