{"id":25056,"date":"2022-12-30T19:33:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T00:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25056"},"modified":"2022-12-30T19:43:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T00:43:17","slug":"demo-encounters-of-the-third-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25056","title":{"rendered":"Code encounters of the third kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes your demo code works right away. Other times it can take a solid week of hacking. And then there are those times when you encounter a demo that takes a year or so to finally work.<\/p>\n<p>The first kind is very easy. The second kind is challenging. The third is very very frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>Today I finally succeeded getting a demo of the third kind to work. It&#8217;s been a long haul, and I had been starting to suspect that this day would never come.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll take the evening off now and watch an old Spielberg movie. Maybe something with mashed potatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes your demo code works right away. Other times it can take a solid week of hacking. And then there are those times when you encounter a demo that takes a year or so to finally work. The first kind is very easy. The second kind is challenging. The third is very very frustrating. Today &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25056\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Code encounters of the third kind&#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\/25056"}],"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=25056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25058,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25056\/revisions\/25058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}