{"id":2270,"date":"2009-09-03T15:43:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2009-09-03T15:43:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:43:41","slug":"you-lucky-bastard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=2270","title":{"rendered":"You Lucky Bastard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you think someone&#8217;s lucky, remember there&#8217;s no such thing as luck, it doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there are those that are born into wealth, survive death defying accidents, born with good health etc, but that isn&#8217;t luck, that&#8217;s good fortune.<\/p>\n<p>If an opportunity arises and you take advantage of it, some will see that as luck, you were in the right place at the right time, but you know that you&#8217;ve likely worked very hard to be prepared &amp; be in a position to take advantage of the opportunity when it arose.<\/p>\n<p>So luck is being prepared &amp; being in a position to take advantage of an opportunity when it presents itself, it&#8217;s that simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you think someone&#8217;s lucky, remember there&#8217;s no such thing as luck, it doesn&#8217;t exist. Of course there are those that are born into wealth, survive death defying accidents, born with good health etc, but that isn&#8217;t luck, that&#8217;s good fortune. If an opportunity arises and you take advantage of it, some will see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22],"tags":[299,5,300],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel","category-not-what-you-think","tag-fortunate","tag-leading","tag-luck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}