{"id":5571,"date":"2017-06-15T22:46:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T03:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2017-06-15T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T03:47:07","slug":"some-days-its-better-to-be-lucky-than-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5571","title":{"rendered":"“Some days, it’s better to be lucky than good”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So I’d taken my youngest kiddo out for ice cream as a reward for a job well done, and didn’t want him to come home still eating it or I’d have some jealousy on the home front.\u00a0 So we went for a short drive.\u00a0 I ended up out of town just a bit and noticed the developing sunset.\u00a0 I quickly whipped into an approach on the side of the road, stepped out, and nabbed this shot.\u00a0 I hadn’t put any planning into it, just had my camera handy and thought I’d give it a whirl.\u00a0 I didn’t see the purple flowers when I pulled over, they were a pleasant surprise when I stepped down out of the truck.\u00a0 Everything just fell into place.<\/p>\n

One of our former producers I worked with on various TV sports crews (NBC, CBS, FOX, ESPN, OLN, Shotime, I’ve worked for ’em all at one point) used to have a saying, the very one that comprises the title of this post.\u00a0 Sometimes you just luck out in a way that could be mistaken for talent, preparation, or both, and you just roll with it.\u00a0 Check this out:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That wasn’t one of our shows, but it would definitely evoke a “lucky than good” reference.\u00a0 In the case of tonight’s photo, God made the sunset and I happened to stumble upon it with my boy at just the right time, in just the right place.\u00a0 You know, maybe it wasn’t luck at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’d taken my youngest kiddo out for ice cream as a reward for a job well done, and didn’t want him to come home still eating it or I’d have some jealousy on the home front.\u00a0 So we went … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}