{"id":776,"date":"2009-11-30T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T16:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.deadsquid.com\/?p=776"},"modified":"2009-11-30T12:02:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T16:02:27","slug":"kick-the-tires-and-light-the-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2009\/11\/30\/kick-the-tires-and-light-the-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"kick the tires and light the fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a really, really long time since I&#8217;ve posted anything that was a result of thinking vs. problem solving, and I&#8217;m hoping that stops starting now. The past year has been one of the most challenging and gratifying of my life, but it has been 100% reactive, with precious little advance planning and a hell of a lot of treading water. I have a new family (I didn&#8217;t even have to add water), a new-to-me home in a town I never, ever expected to be living in (it&#8217;s great), and a job I enjoy (although it&#8217;s been a tough few months adjusting to a number of things).<\/p>\n<p>I think things have settled to the point where I can sit, breathe, plan, and use something more than <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">140 characters<\/a> to express thoughts and share info. To that end, I&#8217;ll be blogging a little more often, focusing on work, but with the odd life update thrown in. There&#8217;s a lot I want to talk about, and a lot of things I&#8217;m working on, but it&#8217;s been hard to find sixty minutes on a regular basis to get thoughts to paper. I think I&#8217;m past that now, and I&#8217;m looking forward to talking a little more about things I&#8217;m working on and thinking about, and ideally getting feedback on it.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how it goes, but I&#8217;m going to try treating posting a little more as a required thing, and plan on using the time I normally use getting annoyed by blam and jesus diaz over at <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/\">Gizmodo<\/a> for something useful, instead. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a really, really long time since I&#8217;ve posted anything that was a result of thinking vs. problem solving, and I&#8217;m hoping that stops starting now. The past year has been one of the most challenging and gratifying of my life, but it has been 100% reactive, with precious little advance planning and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}