{"id":24303,"date":"2022-04-28T19:48:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T00:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24303"},"modified":"2022-04-28T19:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T00:48:56","slug":"in-praise-of-deadlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24303","title":{"rendered":"In praise of deadlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve started Widget Wednesdays, my productivity has definitely gone up. Committing to posting a program a week has been good for me.<\/p>\n<p>I find that days before each Wednesday, I find myself wondering what I might post next. I begin exploring possibilities in my mind, and inevitably a story starts to take shape.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really all about committing to a deadline. I know that it&#8217;s an artificial deadline, but even artificial deadlines can be very productive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve started Widget Wednesdays, my productivity has definitely gone up. Committing to posting a program a week has been good for me. I find that days before each Wednesday, I find myself wondering what I might post next. I begin exploring possibilities in my mind, and inevitably a story starts to take shape. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24303\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In praise of deadlines&#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\/24303"}],"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=24303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24304,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24303\/revisions\/24304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}