{"id":47581,"date":"2022-07-30T12:26:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T12:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=47581"},"modified":"2022-07-30T12:29:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T12:29:03","slug":"the-word-that-never-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/07\/30\/the-word-that-never-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"The word that never happened."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Almost.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What an incredibly versatile word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Powerful, exciting, and scary too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I almost got hit by a car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I almost drowned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I almost missed my plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And not just that: it also captures disappointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I almost made it to the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was almost asked to be the drummer of the band, THAT band, yes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost is the word that refers to what didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it\u2019s actually about nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But at the same time, it\u2019s about everything EXCEPT what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it\u2019s about everything, almost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try to imagine how big and vast that is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost is the imaginary bridge between reality and the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A single word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The word that can haunt you forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Ten years ago I almost bought Tesla shares.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Back then I almost followed that adventurous, long-haired guitar player to his Greek island, and now he\u2019s a billionaire with a chain of B &amp; B\u2019s.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost is a word that can leave you speechless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A word that captures how close you came, in any direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It can be about being the luckiest person in the world, and it can be about the unluckiest human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You almost didn\u2019t read this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo by @snapsbyclark, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost. What an incredibly versatile word. Powerful, exciting, and scary too! I almost got hit by a car. I almost drowned. I almost missed my plane. And not just that: it also captures disappointment. I almost made it to the top. I was almost asked to be the drummer of the band, THAT band, yes! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[117,100,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47584,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47581\/revisions\/47584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}