{"id":22,"date":"2004-06-05T12:59:49","date_gmt":"2004-06-05T12:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2004-06-05T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2004-06-05T12:59:49","slug":"you-tried-your-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"You tried your best&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lost 12-3 to Nigel at table tennis this evening. (Yes, that&#8217;s fifteen games in total!) Losing is not a problem, but a certain spectator remarked &#8220;Ah well, at least you tried your best&#8221;. What is the purpose of this saying? Is it to say I will never beat Nigel, as I played my best and lost? (Although it does raise the question of how does someone else know if I&#8217;ve played my best?) Or is it one of those comments which are supposed to make you feel better, as long as you don&#8217;t attempt to understand the words?<\/p>\n<p>Ah well, time for bed I think&#8230;  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost 12-3 to Nigel at table tennis this evening. (Yes, that&#8217;s fifteen games in total!) Losing is not a problem, but a certain spectator remarked &#8220;Ah well, at least you tried your best&#8221;. What is the purpose of this saying? Is it to say I will never beat Nigel, as I played my best and&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=22\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}