{"id":378,"date":"2011-05-10T12:09:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T12:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenniferblaine.wordpress.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2011-05-10T12:09:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T12:09:47","slug":"going-in-the-wrong-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniferblaine.com\/thoughts\/2011\/05\/10\/going-in-the-wrong-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Going in the wrong direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lily and I were walking home from a play date a block away. Still, we managed to get lost.  Actually, we got lost on purpose.  When we were almost home, Lily said, &#8220;Now you walk backwards in the wrong direction, and I will walk backwards in the opposite direction.  Then when we realize we&#8217;re not in the right place, we can start again!&#8221;   We did this, over and over and over. Each time we laughed and laughed when we realized we were in the wrong place.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been thinking that most of us spend a lot of time trying to &#8220;get it right,&#8221; but we were having a really great time intentionally &#8220;doing it wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I recall reading that a plane gets where it&#8217;s going by being off course 99% of the time and constantly correcting its trajectory.  We learn by doing it wrong too. Imagine if we also enjoyed those missteps, the moments we drift off course?<\/p>\n<p>Why not have fun with going in the wrong direction, and enjoying it for a change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lily and I were walking home from a play date a block away. Still, we managed to get lost. Actually, we got lost on purpose. When we were almost home, Lily said, &#8220;Now you walk backwards in the wrong direction, and I will walk backwards in the opposite direction. Then when we realize we&#8217;re not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferblaine.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferblaine.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferblaine.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferblaine.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferblaine.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferblaine.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferblaine.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferblaine.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferblaine.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}