{"id":174462,"date":"2024-03-19T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=174462"},"modified":"2024-03-19T11:38:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:38:06","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-wyatt-earp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=174462","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Wyatt Earp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA&#8230;Wyatt Earp March 19, 1848 \u2013 January 13, 1929. American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, Tombstone &#038; Alaska.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wyatt_Earp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-157741 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/220px-Wyatt_Earp_portrait.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/220px-Wyatt_Earp_portrait.png 220w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/220px-Wyatt_Earp_portrait-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most important lesson I learned&#8230;was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting&#8211;grandstand play&#8211;as I would poison&#8230;In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFast is fine, but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you going to do something or just stand there and bleed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe less you bet, the more you lose when you win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFast is fine, but accuracy is everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA&#8230;Wyatt Earp March 19, 1848 \u2013 January 13, 1929. American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, Tombstone &#038; Alaska. &#8220;The most important lesson I learned&#8230;was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","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":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/220px-Wyatt_Earp_portrait.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174465,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174462\/revisions\/174465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}