{"id":22374,"date":"2020-07-01T15:49:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T20:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22374"},"modified":"2020-07-01T15:49:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T20:49:41","slug":"turning-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22374","title":{"rendered":"Turning corners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes your life turns a corner. Maybe it&#8217;s because something really lucky happened, or really unlucky. Or maybe it&#8217;s because you had the seeds of a great idea that will one day bear wondrous fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Usually we don&#8217;t know about these things in the moment. The cascading process of cause and effect is generally a long chain with many links.<\/p>\n<p>All we know is that sometime in the future, we will probably have the hindsight and clarity to identify those days when our life turned a corner. And we will marvel that we had no idea, in the moment, that something so big was afoot.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if we could get just a hint &#8212; just one little hint &#8212; that we were living through an extraordinary day? If you could click on an option that said &#8220;yes, tell me whenever this is one of those days,&#8221; would you do it>><\/p>\n<p>I for one would welcome that tap on the shoulder from the gods. Your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes your life turns a corner. Maybe it&#8217;s because something really lucky happened, or really unlucky. Or maybe it&#8217;s because you had the seeds of a great idea that will one day bear wondrous fruit. Usually we don&#8217;t know about these things in the moment. The cascading process of cause and effect is generally a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turning corners&#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\/22374"}],"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=22374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22375,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374\/revisions\/22375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}