{"id":6033,"date":"2026-04-22T14:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/random-quip-5412\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:53:25","slug":"random-quip-5412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/random-quip-5412\/","title":{"rendered":"random quip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to a podcast about why silver medalists are less happy than bronze medalists. It\u2019s because the silver medalist is looking up one spot at what might have been, and the bronze medalist is looking down one spot at what might have been. So here\u2019s something to cheer you: even if your day has been stinky, it\u2019s probably been less so than the day of the people who had to remove a skunk from the courtyard at my place of employment. -Cara Drexler-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to a podcast about why silver medalists are less happy than bronze medalists. It\u2019s because the silver medalist is looking up one spot at what might have been, and the bronze medalist is looking down one spot at what might have been. So here\u2019s something to cheer you: even if your day has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/random-quip-5412\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">random quip<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oUw6-1zj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}