{"id":17956,"date":"2016-10-08T15:47:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17956"},"modified":"2016-10-08T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T20:47:07","slug":"the-demo-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17956","title":{"rendered":"The demo worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we took a huge chance and did a live demo, in front of a very important audience, of something we had never before demo&#8217;d in public.  And it worked.<\/p>\n<p>Going into it, I was feeling a lot of anxiety.  When you do something for the first time, there are a lot of things that can go wrong.  And the things that actually go wrong are just about never any of the things you thought might go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>But thanks to the work of a number of very hard working people, the demo actually worked.  And the highly technically literate audience was clearly surprised and delighted that it worked.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of reaction is often an indication that you are on to something important.  I think we might be on to something important. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we took a huge chance and did a live demo, in front of a very important audience, of something we had never before demo&#8217;d in public. And it worked. Going into it, I was feeling a lot of anxiety. When you do something for the first time, there are a lot of things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The demo worked&#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":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17957,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956\/revisions\/17957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}