{"id":26364,"date":"2024-04-02T18:54:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T23:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26364"},"modified":"2024-04-02T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T23:54:43","slug":"at-a-moments-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26364","title":{"rendered":"At a moment&#8217;s notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it odd that life changing decisions are often made at a moment&#8217;s notice? You would think that would not be the case, considering the stakes.<\/p>\n<p>But I am reminded, surprisingly often, that this is often more the rule than the exception. It takes only a moment make a decision that can alter the course of your life.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that is one of the defining qualities of the human condition: We, among all the creatures on this planet, have the ability to reason about the future.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, we are able to use that ability to make long term plans for ourselves and for the ones that we love. Yet we are also capable, in a mere moment, to radically alter those plans.<\/p>\n<p>I find that amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it odd that life changing decisions are often made at a moment&#8217;s notice? You would think that would not be the case, considering the stakes. But I am reminded, surprisingly often, that this is often more the rule than the exception. It takes only a moment make a decision that can alter the course &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At a moment&#8217;s notice&#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\/26364"}],"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=26364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26365,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26364\/revisions\/26365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}