{"id":1026,"date":"2008-12-06T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:47:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:47:40","slug":"failure-is-mischievous-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2008\/12\/failure-is-mischievous-friend.html","title":{"rendered":"Failure is a mischievous friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span>Failure is a friend and a teacher, but it can be  mischievous. Don&#8217;t let it scare, intimidate, discourage, or sadden you.<\/span> You are great, remember.<br \/>&#8212;<span>Pastor <a href=\"http:\/\/wdfavour.com\/\">WD Favour<\/a><\/span>, <span>Enugu, Nigeria<\/span>, via Twitter \u00a0 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That may be the most interesting view I&#8217;ve read in quite a while. Failure is a friend. It can be mischievous. Fascinating!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve done a whole <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/search\/label\/failure\">series on failure<\/a>, and I explained why in the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2006\/05\/redefining-failure-masterplan.html\">Redefining Failure Masterplan<\/a>. Every entrepreneur has to face the possibility of failure. In fact, you likely will fail, repeatedly. Get ready for it, get through it, and get moving.<\/p>\n<p><i>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2006\/05\/tour-of-small-biz-survival_29.html\"> Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failure is a friend and a teacher, but it can be mischievous. Don&#8217;t let it scare, intimidate, discourage, or sadden you. You are great, remember.&#8212;Pastor WD Favour, Enugu, Nigeria, via Twitter \u00a0 That may be the most interesting view I&#8217;ve read in quite a while. Failure is a friend. It can be mischievous. Fascinating! We&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7816,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/7816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}