{"id":34,"date":"2009-06-26T21:19:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T02:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.alanporter.com\/2009-06-26\/the-rest-of-my-sentence"},"modified":"2009-06-26T21:19:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T02:19:54","slug":"what-was-i-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/what-was-i-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"What was I saying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I am married and have two kids, I find that I have to edit my stories down to under a minute and a half.  Otherwise, the end of the story just never makes it out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi Honey, how was your day at work?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to tell you about this new tool we discovered today.  We were installing our network software on a cluster of machines, which is usually pretty tedious and time consuming. And then one of the guys pulls out this live CD, and &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Daddy, is rice a vegetable or a fruit?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey kids, put that stuff down and wash your hands and face&#8230; now!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My friend Drew says that Megan won&#8217;t talk to Carter because his sister is mean!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the dog just threw up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What was I saying again?  Oh yeah, 90 seconds. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I am married and have two kids, I find that I have to edit my stories down to under a minute and a half. Otherwise, the end of the story just never makes it out. &#8220;Hi Honey, how was your day at work?&#8221; &#8220;I have to tell you about this new tool we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-madness","count-0","even alt","author-alan","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}