{"id":21156,"date":"2019-05-23T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21156"},"modified":"2019-05-23T20:04:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T01:04:49","slug":"hours-in-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21156","title":{"rendered":"Hours in the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you could randomly insert as many extra hours as you wanted into your day &#8212; for example to make those pesky deadlines. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>But suppose this gift came at a high price: For every extra hour you get now, two hours get subtracted off the end of your life.<\/p>\n<p>Would you go for it? Or would you balk at the steep interest rate?<\/p>\n<p>For me, just knowing such a deal was available would make me think long and hard about how I spend my time. Rather than accepting the offer, I think I&#8217;d end up spending my existing hours more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>One day, hopefully a long time from now, I&#8217;m sure I would thank me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you could randomly insert as many extra hours as you wanted into your day &#8212; for example to make those pesky deadlines. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, doesn&#8217;t it? But suppose this gift came at a high price: For every extra hour you get now, two hours get subtracted off the end of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hours in the day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21159,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21156\/revisions\/21159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}