{"id":181,"date":"2005-05-30T21:07:40","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T02:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2005-05-31T06:59:14","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T11:59:14","slug":"get-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/30\/get-lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Get lucky."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seneca_the_Younger\">Seneca<\/a> stated:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/history\/presidents\/tj3.html\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a> observed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rwe.org\/comm\/\">Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Shallow men believe in luck.  Strong men believe in cause and effect.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Got a moment? Read this and consider how many of these ten points you can use:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/managementcraft.typepad.com\/management_craft\/2005\/05\/are_you_feeling.html\">Are you feeling lucky? Here are 10 Ways to create your own luck.<\/a> (And while you&#8217;re at it, take some time to read the rest of Lisa&#8217;s blog.)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogmaverick.com\/\">Mark Cuban<\/a> offers this nugget for you to consider: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogmaverick.com\/entry\/1234000033045010\/\">You only have to be right once!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seneca stated: &#8220;Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.&#8221; Thomas Jefferson observed: &#8220;I&#8217;m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.&#8221; And from Ralph Waldo Emerson: &#8220;Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.&#8221; Got a moment? Read this and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/30\/get-lucky\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}