{"id":5151,"date":"2020-09-19T17:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T00:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=5151"},"modified":"2020-09-19T17:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T00:13:04","slug":"still-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=5151","title":{"rendered":"Still learning&#8230; and finding out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewalkerschool.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/ancora.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=150 class=floatRight src=\"https:\/\/thewalkerschool.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/ancora.jpg\"><\/a>I learned a new phrase today: &#8220;Ancora imparo.&#8221;  In Italian, it means &#8220;I am still learning&#8221; &#8211; what a great message!  It apparently is often <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Michelangelo#Misattributed\">misattributed to Michelangelo, but actually derives from a letter by Seneca<\/a> (who would not have written in Italian, but it had been popularized in Italy in Michelangelo&#8217;s time).  To me it sounds like a wonderful reminder of humility and acceptance of not being perfect at something&#8230; yet :)  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also inspiring.  Truly, what is life if we&#8217;re not learning something new each day?<\/p>\n<p>I also like how it sounds like an incantation or a spell.  <i>Ancora imparo!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of the excellent song by Cat Stevens called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KHo_YwyZ9Ic\">On the Road to Find Out<\/a>.  He has an even more explicit expectation of the outcome: &#8220;In the end I know, but on the way I wonder.&#8221;  But it&#8217;s great just to be in the process of learning itself.  If in the end you know, that just means it&#8217;s time to move on to the next question. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a new phrase today: &#8220;Ancora imparo.&#8221; In Italian, it means &#8220;I am still learning&#8221; &#8211; what a great message! It apparently is often misattributed to Michelangelo, but actually derives from a letter by Seneca (who would not have written in Italian, but it had been popularized in Italy in Michelangelo&#8217;s time). To me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5157,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions\/5157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}