{"id":128,"date":"2020-02-11T16:20:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T00:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2020-02-11T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T00:20:22","slug":"use-it-or-lose-it-grow-it-and-show-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/11\/use-it-or-lose-it-grow-it-and-show-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Use it or lose it. Grow it and show it."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Penguins evolved from birds that didn\u2019t need to fly and so their wings changed and now penguins can\u2019t fly. Wings and your ability to fly. Use it or lose it.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, flying fish escape predators by leaping out of the water, flying for several yards, and reentering the water at a safer place. This is nothing short of amazing. This is the opposite of \u201cuse it or lose it\u201d that we don\u2019t hear about much. The rhymes don\u2019t work out as well but it\u2019s something like \u201cGrow it and show it.\u201d If you need it, you should breed it.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before birds like penguins lost their ability to fly, there was some wingless creature walking around, wishing it could fly. And then it grew some wings. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penguins evolved from birds that didn\u2019t need to fly and so their wings changed and now penguins can\u2019t fly. Wings and your ability to fly. Use it or lose it. On the other hand, flying fish escape predators by leaping out of the water, flying for several yards, and reentering the water at a safer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/11\/use-it-or-lose-it-grow-it-and-show-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Use it or lose it. Grow it and show it.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}