{"id":25315,"date":"2023-03-25T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T00:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25315"},"modified":"2023-03-25T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T00:17:09","slug":"proposal-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25315","title":{"rendered":"Proposal deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of us are working on a very large proposal together. We have been working on it for quite a while, and now the deadline is approaching.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody has been putting a lot of effort into it over these last months. But now that we are in the final week, it is amazing how much more focus everyone has. I am reminded of my favorite quote of Samuel Johnson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of us are working on a very large proposal together. We have been working on it for quite a while, and now the deadline is approaching. Everybody has been putting a lot of effort into it over these last months. But now that we are in the final week, it is amazing how &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Proposal deadline&#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\/25315"}],"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=25315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25316,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315\/revisions\/25316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}