{"id":22428,"date":"2020-07-25T21:08:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T02:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22428"},"modified":"2020-07-25T21:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T02:08:41","slug":"this-is-a-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22428","title":{"rendered":"This is a time machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been writing a post a day here since January 1, 2008. Little by little, it all adds up.<\/p>\n<p>This week, out of curiosity, I went back ten years to see what I was saying in this blog a decade ago. Immediately I was swept back into another world, one that is oddly near and distant at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>A decade is an interesting length of time. It&#8217;s sufficiently lon g that we&#8217;ve gone through many changes, yet we clearly recognize the person we encounter as ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny to of myself this way, two versions of me divided by a decade. If the person I am now could give one piece of advice to the person I was ten years ago, I wonder what I would say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been writing a post a day here since January 1, 2008. Little by little, it all adds up. This week, out of curiosity, I went back ten years to see what I was saying in this blog a decade ago. Immediately I was swept back into another world, one that is oddly near and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is a time machine&#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\/22428"}],"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=22428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22429,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22428\/revisions\/22429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}