{"id":24276,"date":"2022-04-17T20:27:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T01:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24276"},"modified":"2022-04-17T20:27:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T01:27:03","slug":"like-a-door-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24276","title":{"rendered":"Like a door opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working with a colleague for months to get something working. In particular, this was the key technical step that would allow us to move forward on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Getting it working involved surmounting a lot of hurdles, and there have been many setbacks. But today, for the first time, it finally worked. Hurray!<\/p>\n<p>There are still many steps to be done until the project is completed, and I realize now that I had been holding off on taking those steps. Because what would have been the point of taking those steps until we knew the whole thing is feasible?<\/p>\n<p>So now I can give myself permission to tackle those other problems, and it feels great. It&#8217;s like a door opening onto a whole new world.<\/p>\n<p>Time to step through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working with a colleague for months to get something working. In particular, this was the key technical step that would allow us to move forward on the project. Getting it working involved surmounting a lot of hurdles, and there have been many setbacks. But today, for the first time, it finally worked. Hurray! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24276\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Like a door opening&#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\/24276"}],"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=24276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24277,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24276\/revisions\/24277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}