{"id":2608,"date":"2020-04-17T22:08:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T22:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2020-04-17T22:08:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T22:08:20","slug":"the-failure-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/2020\/04\/17\/the-failure-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Failure-Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2609\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/2020\/04\/17\/the-failure-artist\/selection-1-8-5\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204408\/selection-1-8.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1667,2500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1552751723&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"selection-1-8\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204408\/selection-1-8-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204408\/selection-1-8-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2609\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204408\/selection-1-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1667\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204408\/selection-1-8.jpg 1667w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204408\/selection-1-8-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204408\/selection-1-8-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204408\/selection-1-8-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204408\/selection-1-8-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204408\/selection-1-8-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204408\/selection-1-8-920x1380.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1667px) 100vw, 1667px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Samuel Becket<\/p>\n<p>(And do not be<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>tempted<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>to read this in the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>American way,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>says: Fail until you succeed, but read it in a very European, old-world way. Embrace<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>this failure, insist on failure being the thing you&#8217;re striving for, disappointment being<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the most natural<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>thing and not strive for something. \u00a0The very notion of striving is,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>what distracts you. Be allergic to achievement. Tak failure seriously as an achievement in and by itself. Leave this failure-as-a-pose behind you: It is our loss, that the greatest achievements of the Failure-Artist, his mastery of failing shows itself in his invisibility &#8211; what beauty lies in his being overcome and defeated by the world.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. &#8211;Samuel Becket (And do not be\u00a0 tempted\u00a0 to read this in the\u00a0 American way,\u00a0 that\u00a0 says: Fail until you succeed, but read it in a very European, old-world way. Embrace\u00a0 this failure, insist on failure being the thing you&#8217;re striving for, disappointment being\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/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-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6L1xp-G4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}