{"id":20675,"date":"2026-01-04T01:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/?p=20675"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:03:24","slug":"things-that-are-brave-are-often-painful-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/04\/things-that-are-brave-are-often-painful-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that are brave are often painful and"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5221.jpg\" alt=\"I\u2019m not sure why we do them, really, and things\" class=\"wp-image-20676\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I\u2019m not sure why we do them, really, and things<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5231.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5231.jpg\" alt=\"that are brave don\u2019t often look brave and maybe won\u2019t\" class=\"wp-image-20677\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">that are brave don\u2019t often look brave and maybe won\u2019t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5235.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5235.jpg\" alt=\"for two hundred years? \u2014Megan Fernandes\" class=\"wp-image-20678\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">for two hundred years?<br\/><em>\u2014Megan Fernandes<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5235.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20680,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675\/revisions\/20680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}