{"id":28440,"date":"2026-05-19T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28440"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:02:11","slug":"successful-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28440","title":{"rendered":"Successful failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been giving demos to a few people of some new interactive software that I&#8217;ve been developing. And a lot of things have been going wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Which is great. You might even say that these are successful failures.<\/p>\n<p>You see, this way I can find and fix those pesky bugs now, before they crop up in front of some large group of strangers. Needless to say, I am extremely grateful to the people watching these early buggy versions of my demo.<\/p>\n<p>I would happily do the same for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been giving demos to a few people of some new interactive software that I&#8217;ve been developing. And a lot of things have been going wrong. Which is great. You might even say that these are successful failures. You see, this way I can find and fix those pesky bugs now, before they crop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28440\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Successful failures&#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\/28440"}],"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=28440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28441,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440\/revisions\/28441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}