{"id":28810,"date":"2026-10-01T17:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28810"},"modified":"2026-10-01T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:37:50","slug":"a-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28810","title":{"rendered":"A new beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that it is just an arbitrary division on a calendar, but the first day of the month always feels to me like a new beginning. It&#8217;s time to turn the page, to start anew, to erase that old whiteboard and get some fresh dry erase markers.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe just a time to realize that you need better metaphors. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In any case, happy October 1 everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that it is just an arbitrary division on a calendar, but the first day of the month always feels to me like a new beginning. It&#8217;s time to turn the page, to start anew, to erase that old whiteboard and get some fresh dry erase markers. Or maybe just a time to realize &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A new beginning&#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\/28810"}],"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=28810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28811,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28810\/revisions\/28811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}