{"id":2282,"date":"2013-11-26T21:53:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T02:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2013-11-26T21:53:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T02:53:29","slug":"playing-poker-my-winning-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/2013\/11\/26\/playing-poker-my-winning-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Poker &#8211; My Winning Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many months have passed since I started the unconventional game of poker. \u00a0It is most proverbial in play but I wanted to use the analogy because it fits perfectly. \u00a0I started with my first winning hand gaining myself the reward of the pot. \u00a0It was a small gain. \u00a0I kept playing and decided to keep the best cards in my hand calling the bluff when seeing it before me. \u00a0My strategy was working!<br \/>\nI made it my first 30 days, nights and weekends. \u00a0Then came 90 days, still holding a winning hand. \u00a0As of last Sunday, November 24th, I reached the 180 day mark or six months. \u00a0My winnings increased and I still held a winning hand. \u00a0I have plans to continue the winning streak one game, one hand at a time knowing that I only need to make progress, that is, my game will never be perfect but improve with each win.<br \/>\nI use this analogy of poker because I know that if I loose my winning hand I will be gambling with my livelihood. \u00a0That would put me back at the start, where I was with the first hand. \u00a0It wouldn&#8217;t be the end of the world; loosing the hand. \u00a0However, it would be starting all over again and loosing my winning streak. \u00a0So I carry on, playing my hand one turn at a time.<br \/>\nFull House by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicdomainpictures.net\/browse-author.php?a=296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter\u00a0Griffin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many months have passed since I started the unconventional game of poker. \u00a0It is most proverbial in play but I wanted to use the analogy because it fits perfectly. \u00a0I started with my first winning hand gaining myself the reward of the pot. \u00a0It was a small gain. \u00a0I kept playing and decided to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allowthepoetthis","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}