{"id":1949,"date":"2013-02-18T07:08:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T13:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2013-02-18T07:08:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T13:08:33","slug":"regret-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/18\/regret-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that if you don&#8217;t have any regret, you aren&#8217;t trying very hard.<\/p>\n<p>Regret is inevitable, because mistakes and missteps are inevitable. If you don&#8217;t have any, you probably haven&#8217;t been in forward motion trying to achieve, accomplish, or make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, regret isn&#8217;t fatal. It&#8217;s just a way of saying &#8220;In hindsight&#8230;&#8230;,&#8221; Since none of us have 20\/20 foresight, hindsight is likely to produce occasional regret.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have regrets? I do. But they are irrelevant, because I&#8217;m living toward the future with the benefit of the wisdom and experience in my past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that if you don&#8217;t have any regret, you aren&#8217;t trying very hard. Regret is inevitable, because mistakes and missteps are inevitable. If you don&#8217;t have any, you probably haven&#8217;t been in forward motion trying to achieve, accomplish, or make a difference. Fortunately, regret isn&#8217;t fatal. It&#8217;s just a way of saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1950,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}