{"id":20644,"date":"2026-09-20T13:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=20644"},"modified":"2026-09-20T13:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:32:32","slug":"this-is-humbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/20\/this-is-humbling\/","title":{"rendered":"this is humbling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/496f6fd09f48127dd6872c49811b8bd8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"587\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/496f6fd09f48127dd6872c49811b8bd8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/496f6fd09f48127dd6872c49811b8bd8.jpg 587w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/496f6fd09f48127dd6872c49811b8bd8-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">from kareem abdul-jabar&#8217;s newsletter on <a href=\"https:\/\/kareem.substack.com\/p\/dolly-parton-set-an-example-for-us?publication_id=482856&amp;post_id=212955990&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=f7j3&amp;triedRedirect=true\">dolly parton<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By eight, she could play guitar, and by ten, she was on the radio. Her first single, \u201cPuppy Love,\u201d came out when she was thirteen [in 1959]. That same year, she made her Grand Ole Opry debut, where she was introduced by Johnny Cash. She wasn\u2019t an overnight success: she worked nonstop, honing her craft, honing her songwriting, but it took her more than a decade to score her first number-one hit in 1971. Imagine how many people came and went in that decade. A lot of one-hit wonders; a lot of no-hit wonders. <strong>The Beatles\u2019 entire recording career came and went during the long stretch between Dolly&#8217;s first single and her first number-one hit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(to be fair she was only 25 in 1971!!! also impressive!!!!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from kareem abdul-jabar&#8217;s newsletter on dolly parton: By eight, she could play guitar, and by ten, she was on the radio. Her first single, \u201cPuppy Love,\u201d came out when she was thirteen [in 1959]. That same year, she made her Grand Ole Opry debut, where she was introduced by Johnny Cash. She wasn\u2019t an overnight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-20644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20644"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20675,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20644\/revisions\/20675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}