{"id":2097,"date":"2010-02-16T14:16:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2010-02-16T14:16:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:16:33","slug":"you-cant-win-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/16\/you-cant-win-them-all\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Win Them All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday Quinn had a hockey game, and they lost 3-2.\u00c2\u00a0 He wasn&#8217;t too worried about it, they just have too much fun playing to get all that worked up over it.\u00c2\u00a0 We were walking out of the rink and I said to Quinn, &#8216;well don&#8217;t worry buddy, you can&#8217;t win them all&#8217;.\u00c2\u00a0 His response?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, but you CAN lose them all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After I stopped laughing, I started thinking that this was actually fairly profound.\u00c2\u00a0 In the grand sense, any &#8220;win&#8221; should be a reason to celebrate.\u00c2\u00a0 We should be grateful for what we have, in essence.\u00c2\u00a0 It can always be worse.<\/p>\n<p>As I prepare to work again this weekend (which is 4 out of the last 5 weekends in a row) it is rather important to remember that it&#8217;s better to be working hard than hardly working.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks buddy, I needed that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday Quinn had a hockey game, and they lost 3-2.\u00c2\u00a0 He wasn&#8217;t too worried about it, they just have too much fun playing to get all that worked up over it.\u00c2\u00a0 We were walking out of the rink and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/16\/you-cant-win-them-all\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","tag-quinns-hockey-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-xP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}