{"id":28029,"date":"2025-12-05T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28029"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:48:40","slug":"breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28029","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you have technical breakthroughs. And sometimes you have conceptual breakthroughs.<\/p>\n<p>Today I had a conceptual breakthrough. I realized that an important research concept had been staring me in the face for months, waiting for me to stare back.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that now I know what direction to go. The bad news is that now I&#8217;ve got lots of work to do.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe that&#8217;s also good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you have technical breakthroughs. And sometimes you have conceptual breakthroughs. Today I had a conceptual breakthrough. I realized that an important research concept had been staring me in the face for months, waiting for me to stare back. The good news is that now I know what direction to go. The bad news is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Breakthrough&#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\/28029"}],"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=28029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28030,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28029\/revisions\/28030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}