{"id":2431,"date":"2020-08-20T06:02:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2020-08-20T06:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:02:45","slug":"greatest-gift-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/20\/greatest-gift-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Gift of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cChallenge and perfection is the greatest\u0003 gift of life.\u0003 Embrace it and use it well.\u0003 To turn your back on the challenge of perfection is to close the door on your spirit, your freedom \u2026 your very existence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Betty Skelton, quoted in 2011 book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0066CDH6U\/amaz09b9-20\">Betty Skelton First Lady of Firsts<\/a><\/em> by Henry Holden. An amazing aerobatic pilot, she also held many speed and altitude records. Her Pitts Special airplane now hangs inverted, forever looping, in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Here&#8217;s its final climb:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1330\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/littlestinker-1330x2000.jpg\" alt=\"Little Stinker in the Smithsonian\" class=\"wp-image-2432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/littlestinker-1330x2000.jpg 1330w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/littlestinker-399x600.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/littlestinker-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/littlestinker-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/littlestinker-1021x1536.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/littlestinker-1362x2048.jpg 1362w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/littlestinker.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1330px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChallenge and perfection is the greatest\u0003 gift of life.\u0003 Embrace it and use it well.\u0003 To turn your back on the challenge of perfection is to close the door on your spirit, your freedom \u2026 your very existence.\u201d Betty Skelton, quoted in 2011 book Betty Skelton First Lady of Firsts by Henry Holden. An amazing aerobatic pilot, she also held many speed and altitude records. Her Pitts Special airplane now hangs inverted, forever looping, in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Here&#8217;s its final climb:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[153,70,82],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-aerobatics","tag-challenge","tag-perfection"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}