{"id":3667,"date":"2014-03-18T20:29:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T00:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2014-03-26T17:48:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T21:48:42","slug":"march-exercise-year-nine-day-eighteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/3667","title":{"rendered":"March Exercise &nbsp;|&nbsp; year nine, day eighteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cAll of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Samuel Beckett <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I cannot lay claim to having unraveled any of the perplexities of <em>Worstward Ho<\/em> or <em>Waiting for Godot,<\/em> but Beckett\u2019s famous quotation about perseverance rings especially true for me. There are times when I look at a collage artwork just finished and, to be honest, I am unable to tell if it is a success or a failure. However, one thing is certain \u2014 I am always one step closer to knowing. Let us keep failing better.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dixon_FreshCatchByJohn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dixon_FreshCatchByJohn.jpg\" title=\"Fresh Catch By John ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dixon_FreshCatchByJohn.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dixon_FreshCatchByJohn-300x303.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 370px; margin-bottom: 33px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Fresh Catch By John<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage artifact by J A Dixon<br \/>\n10.5 x 9 inches<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#038;hosted_button_id=3XDTTPACG45QS\" title=\"BUY NOW through PayPal.\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase this artwork!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.\u201d \u2014 Samuel Beckett I cannot lay claim to having unraveled any of the perplexities of Worstward Ho or Waiting for Godot, but Beckett\u2019s famous quotation about perseverance rings especially true for me. There are times when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,118,18,71,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}