{"id":7560,"date":"2019-04-03T10:54:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T14:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=7560"},"modified":"2019-04-03T17:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T21:44:58","slug":"what-is-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/04\/03\/what-is-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"What is failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw040319-4.jpg\" alt=\"What is failure\" class=\"wp-image-7552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw040319-4.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw040319-4-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>What is failure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If I have read your question right (&#8220;What is failure?&#8221;), you need to read <em>Bird by Bird<\/em>, by Anne Lamott. It&#8217;s all about what failure teaches, and how to be receptive to it. It takes a certain amount of humor, which she readily provides. (O&#8217;Neill &amp; Social Work Libraries, PN147 .L315 1995) Writers seem to write about failure a lot. Here&#8217;s another one: <em>The promise of failure: one writer&#8217;s perspective on not succeeding<\/em>, by John McNally. (O&#8217;Neill Library PS3563. C38813 Z46 2018). The key takeaway: failure happens, learn from it, move on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I have read your question right (&#8220;What is failure?&#8221;), you need to read Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott. It&#8217;s all about what failure teaches, and how to be receptive to it. It takes a certain amount of humor, which she readily provides. (O&#8217;Neill &amp; Social Work Libraries, PN147 .L315 1995) Writers seem to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/04\/03\/what-is-failure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is failure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[558],"class_list":["post-7560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-wellness","tag-failure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7581,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560\/revisions\/7581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}