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horen bij het leven. Niet alles wat we ondernemen leidt tot succes. Meer nog, soms lopen de zaken door omstandigheden volledig fout. Vraag het maar aan de werknemers van wie het bedrijf door corona moet sluiten of failliet gaat. Vraag het maar aan mensen die plots ernstig ziek worden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108],"tags":[195,227,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/servaas.ssimons.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/servaas.ssimons.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/servaas.ssimons.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servaas.ssimons.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servaas.ssimons.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/servaas.ssimons.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servaas.ssimons.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/servaas.ssimons.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servaas.ssimons.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servaas.ssimons.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}