{"id":47163,"date":"2014-11-07T06:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/07\/if-you-do-not-bend-you-will-break.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T10:41:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:41:04","slug":"if-you-do-not-bend-you-will-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/07\/if-you-do-not-bend-you-will-break.html","title":{"rendered":"If you do not bend, you will break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We tend to think of the things (and people) around us that we trust &#8212; the reliable things, that is &#8212; as inflexible, strong, never yielding, fixed, steady.<\/p>\n<p>The things that we should trust are the ones that can bend just enough &#8212; and spring back &#8212; to handle the stresses put on them.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Asbj&oslash;rn Grandt<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Watch how a large container ship flexes in a storm, they have to , else they&#39;d break.<\/p>\n<p>And <i>Skagen Maersk<\/i> ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleetmon.com\/en\/vessels\/Skagen_Maersk_38591\">http:\/\/www.fleetmon.com\/en\/vessels\/Skagen_Maersk_38591<\/a> ) isn&#39;t even one of the largest ships.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104498169767714651838\" oid=\"104498169767714651838\">Maersk<\/a><\/span>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23shipping\">#shipping<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PmlTk_3NN_g' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/8nVt2LTmK2j'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We tend to think of the things (and people) around us that we trust &#8212; the reliable things, that is &#8212; as inflexible, strong, never yielding, fixed, steady. The things that we should trust are the ones that can bend just enough &#8212; and spring back &#8212; to handle the stresses put on them. Originally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/07\/if-you-do-not-bend-you-will-break.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If you do not bend, you will break&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,748,20,717],"tags":[741],"class_list":["post-47163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-hi-tech","category-traveling","tag-shipping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38451,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/13\/now-bend-over-and-cough.html","url_meta":{"origin":47163,"position":0},"title":"Now bend over and cough","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Aug-13 6:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that I'm a regular attendee at sporting events*, but this looks like an even better reason not to be: the increasing security** restrictions at stadiums.\u00a0* Also applies, I suppose, to music events at major stadiums, which I'm also not a regular attendee of.** \"Security\" may be a misnomer, since\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5717,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/19\/unconscious_mut.html","url_meta":{"origin":47163,"position":1},"title":"Unconscious Mutterings","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Jan-04 1:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's the meme that's a psychiatric test! 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