{"id":1424,"date":"2014-06-12T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2014-06-10T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T17:01:25","slug":"your-gut-may-lead-you-astray-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/your-gut-may-lead-you-astray-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Your gut may lead you astray, but . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Your gut may lead you astray, but it&#8217;s never wrong. If you don&#8217;t have the guts to act on something and the moment passes, you will always remember that you were a gutless wonder. In gut we trust.&#8221; Herb Caen<\/p>\n<p><b>Herb Caen<\/b> (1916\u20131997) was a journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotes appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for nearly\u00a0 sixty years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Herb-Caen1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1426 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Herb-Caen1.jpg\" alt=\"Herb Caen\" width=\"185\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"templatequote\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;The secret of Caen&#8217;s success [was] his outstanding ability to take a wisp of fog, a chance phrase overheard in an elevator, a happy child on a cable car, a deb in a tizzy over a social reversal, a family in distress and give each circumstance the magic touch that makes a reader an understanding eyewitness of the day&#8217;s happenings.&#8221;\u00a0 <a title=\"Herb Caen\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herb_Caen\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Your gut may lead you astray, but it&#8217;s never wrong. If you don&#8217;t have the guts to act on something and the moment passes, you will always remember that you were a gutless wonder. In gut we trust.&#8221; Herb Caen Herb Caen (1916\u20131997) was a journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[480],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-herb-caen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-mY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}