{"id":162,"date":"2024-09-28T13:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T13:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mylegacyden.com\/joedifalco\/top-gun-wisdom\/"},"modified":"2024-09-28T13:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T13:25:24","slug":"top-gun-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylegacyden.com\/joedifalco\/top-gun-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Gun Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here is the setup of the scene:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maverick has just lost his REO and best friend in an aerial accident. He is so shaken up by the incident that he is not engaging in the dog fighting training \u2013 basically he is second guessing everything he is doing while flying \u2013 which could bleed over into combat in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Viper, his <strong>wise commanding officer<\/strong>, is offering advice to help him get back on track and restore his confidence. Maverick needs to get over this, and quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d <em>The simple fact is you feel responsible for Goose and you have a confidence problem. Now I\u2019m not gonna sit here and blow sunshine up your ass, Lieutenant. A good pilot is compelled to evaluate what\u2019s happened, so he can apply what he\u2019s learned.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Same is true in life. We all do and say <strong>STUPID<\/strong> things. ALL of us can look back on many instances where we failed. Sometimes, we fail in a big way. <em>However, a good man is compelled to evaluate how he has handled his failures so he can apply what he has learned.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Proverbs 16:16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the setup of the scene: Maverick has just lost his REO and best friend in an aerial accident. He is so shaken up by the incident that he is not engaging in the dog fighting training \u2013 basically he is second guessing everything he is doing while flying \u2013 which could bleed over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tld_youtube_id":"","tld_audio":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code-to-live-by"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylegacyden.com\/joedifalco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylegacyden.com\/joedifalco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylegacyden.com\/joedifalco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylegacyden.com\/joedifalco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylegacyden.com\/joedifalco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mylegacyden.com\/joedifalco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylegacyden.com\/joedifalco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylegacyden.com\/joedifalco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylegacyden.com\/joedifalco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}