{"id":28902,"date":"2026-11-01T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28902"},"modified":"2026-11-02T04:35:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:35:41","slug":"before-the-whirlwind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28902","title":{"rendered":"Before the whirlwind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting tomorrow I am going to be very busy all week at a conference, which I know will be a whirlwind of activity. Today is the day before the conference &#8212; the calm before the storm.<\/p>\n<p>I spent most of the day quietly working on my talk, and enjoying the peace and silence. When we manage to get those rare moments of calm, they are precious and wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a deep breath now, before heading into the whirlwind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting tomorrow I am going to be very busy all week at a conference, which I know will be a whirlwind of activity. Today is the day before the conference &#8212; the calm before the storm. I spent most of the day quietly working on my talk, and enjoying the peace and silence. When we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Before the whirlwind&#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\/28902"}],"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=28902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28903,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902\/revisions\/28903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}