{"id":5060,"date":"2011-02-21T11:05:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T16:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=3293"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:47:03","slug":"never-never-never-never-never-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/never-never-never-never-never-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Never, never, never, never, never give up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I hear\/see that one more time, I\u2019ll puke in my wastebasket.<\/p>\n<p>What bullshit is this? Who came up with this? Who thought this was a good idea? Oh, Churchill? Right, him. The guy who was leading the charge in World War II before Pearl Harbor was a glimmer in our tears. He gets a pass.<\/p>\n<p>You could come back at me and say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChanging your tactic isn\u2019t giving up.\u201d That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetreating now to fight another day isn\u2019t giving up.\u201d That\u2019s true, too.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe, if you are stacking up too many \u201cnevers\u201d to modify your \u201cgive up,\u201d you should probably rethink your goal or at least think about it in realistic terms. Without context, platitudes and proverbs mean less than nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, giving up is simply breaking out of a jail you built for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I hear\/see that one more time, I\u2019ll puke in my wastebasket. What bullshit is this? Who came up with this? Who thought this was a good idea? Oh, Churchill? Right, him. The guy who was leading the charge in World War II before Pearl Harbor was a glimmer in our tears. He gets a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[476,317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16685,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions\/16685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}