{"id":24181,"date":"2022-03-12T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T22:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24181"},"modified":"2022-03-12T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T22:25:09","slug":"gathering-your-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24181","title":{"rendered":"Gathering your toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the last week working on a simple animated drawing program. I originally wrote it as a stand-along program. You can see that version of it in my &#8220;Widget Wednesdays&#8221; post from several days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I modified the program so that it can be inserted into other programs as a kind of add-on. Then today I incorporated it into another software project.<\/p>\n<p>So now I can play with it in various ways, and combine it with other stuff. It&#8217;s a great feeling to be able to do that.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of reminds me of one time when I was a kid and my toy plastic dinosaurs had all become scattered. Then one day I finally managed to find them all and gather them together.<\/p>\n<p>Once they were all in the same place at the same time I could once again take them on adventures and tell their stories. And what could be better than that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the last week working on a simple animated drawing program. I originally wrote it as a stand-along program. You can see that version of it in my &#8220;Widget Wednesdays&#8221; post from several days ago. Yesterday I modified the program so that it can be inserted into other programs as a kind of add-on. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gathering your toys&#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\/24181"}],"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=24181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24182,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24181\/revisions\/24182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}