{"id":5415,"date":"2018-09-21T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.mechadigital.net\/?p=5415"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:37:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:37:52","slug":"september-21-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/september-21-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"September 21, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5416 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Brian-in-Pawnee2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Brian-in-Pawnee2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Brian-in-Pawnee2-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Brian-in-Pawnee2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Brian-in-Pawnee2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Brian-in-Pawnee2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To those who wrote me on the occasion of my announcement of my retirement from much of my teaching, THANK YOU!\u00a0\u00a0But I have to say that, in spite of the nice things you all said about my teaching, I think you may have forgotten the role that YOU have played in becoming better pilots.\u00a0\u00a0Because, if you didn&#8217;t have the desire to improve through practice, your skills couldn&#8217;t be improved by anyone.\u00a0\u00a0It is YOU who have been responsible for your own improvement&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/myemail.constantcontact.com\/Changes-at-Tailwheel-Town.html?soid=1110879289877&amp;aid=XlM-y-_SC9g\">Read the full newsletter.<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To those who wrote me on the occasion of my announcement of my retirement from much of my teaching, THANK YOU!\u00a0\u00a0But I have to say that, in spite of the nice things you all said about my teaching, I think you may have forgotten the role that YOU have played in becoming better pilots.\u00a0\u00a0Because, if you didn&#8217;t have the desire to improve through practice, your skills couldn&#8217;t be improved by anyone.\u00a0\u00a0It is YOU who have been responsible for your own improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}