{"id":626,"date":"2020-09-13T20:47:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T04:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2020-09-13T20:47:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T04:47:47","slug":"youre-going-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/13\/youre-going-to-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re going to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we took my 5-year-old boy out to try riding his bike without his training wheels for the first time and as I pushed him along and then let go of the bike, he of course didn\u2019t go riding straight off into the sunset. He expects everything to go perfectly and gets loudly upset when it doesn\u2019t. I told him something that I hoped would help: \u201cYou\u2019re going to fall. Everyone falls.\u201d I told him to not worry about it and just keep going.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whenever you see a surfer riding a big wave successfully, you can bet that they have also fallen riding waves that big. There\u2019s just no way around it. And that\u2019s how you learn.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So just in case no one\u2019s told you recently: You\u2019re going to fall. Don\u2019t worry about it. Just get up, learn something, and keep going.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we took my 5-year-old boy out to try riding his bike without his training wheels for the first time and as I pushed him along and then let go of the bike, he of course didn\u2019t go riding straight off into the sunset. He expects everything to go perfectly and gets loudly upset when &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/13\/youre-going-to-fall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You\u2019re going to fall&#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-626","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\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}