{"id":702,"date":"2020-10-19T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2020-10-19T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:39:52","slug":"when-a-rock-might-be-a-snail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/19\/when-a-rock-might-be-a-snail\/","title":{"rendered":"When a rock might be a snail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My son shouted excitedly to me this morning, \u201cI found a baby snail!\u201d as he pointed to something that looked to me like a very small rock in a puddle. I looked at it. It looked like a rock. I told him it was a rock. He insisted that it was a baby snail.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/i9zHl4KgFGssEvFFxrXgpu3s0dAMkoDMiEqk0OlklmLoWgsBUDQGoeUjjlaO1uSZFnWnESBPAcdbXp5NZCpjEwi3e7yMEe6FdEBqprdIoA84WUeL9ClrfQUA5G7JPJ7kpFxlsUpu\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I took a closer look. I picked it up. It was smaller than most small things. I thought it was smaller than a baby snail would be but it occurred to me that I\u2019ve never seen a baby snail. So I looked at it again. Real close. And saw this:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/QEWKKjzdnEgQqy_dnHaxGKGrI4LJdMpYwaykPL6JL3evDPQmQdPGg00HPD-K9WZ9fkp1ueN5yFi0YN7SgBcL7HxB-o-VG2FjF6XOz-oyJG_4qsm52AP2FuZcy8JnNmJDj5y5Eb-b\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A baby snail. Old eagle eyes was right. It was a baby snail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the lesson I learned again today. When there\u2019s a disagreement, take a closer look at the subject of your disagreement. Because you\u2019re not the only one who thinks that they\u2019re right. And because you might be the one who\u2019s wrong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son shouted excitedly to me this morning, \u201cI found a baby snail!\u201d as he pointed to something that looked to me like a very small rock in a puddle. I looked at it. It looked like a rock. I told him it was a rock. He insisted that it was a baby snail.&nbsp; So &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/19\/when-a-rock-might-be-a-snail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When a rock might be a snail&#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-702","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\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}