{"id":1616,"date":"2016-02-02T18:19:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T01:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2016-02-03T04:19:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T11:19:28","slug":"i-wish-life-had-first-drafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"I Wish Life Had First Drafts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1617\" \/><\/a>I wish life had first drafts.<\/p>\n<p>My students will bring theirs tomorrow. They\u2019ll work in groups to make their compositions better before the teacher sees them.<\/p>\n<p>Wish I could do the same in life\u2014have several practice runs at something (like raising children or starting a new business) before it counted\u2014before failure was permanent.<\/p>\n<p>But then, maybe failure isn\u2019t forever. It\u2019s not in school (one can take classes again). Maybe life is a series of drafts, constantly being revised until we get it right.<\/p>\n<p>And then, of course, it\u2019s time for a new assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish life had first drafts. My students will bring theirs tomorrow. They\u2019ll work in groups to make their compositions better before the teacher sees them. Wish I could do the same in life\u2014have several practice runs at something (like raising children or starting a new business) before it counted\u2014before failure was permanent. But then, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}