{"id":1679,"date":"2008-11-04T22:13:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T22:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/11\/04\/i_have_been_distracted_from_my_distraction\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T22:13:43","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T22:13:43","slug":"i_have_been_distracted_from_my_distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/11\/04\/i_have_been_distracted_from_my_distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"I have been distracted from my distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just got out of a meeting at which I learned the hourly operating cost of this research building. I&#8217;m not gonna tell you what it is, just that my jaw almost hit the floor.<br \/>\nThis new knowledge has inspired a burst of extra productivity, to make sure that my little corner of the building is pulling its weight in the return on investment department.<br \/>\nHow very inconvenient that this should happen on the day of the US election &#8211; I was enjoying the BBC website&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7700298.stm\">live text updates<\/a>.<br \/>\nAh well, back to editing my budget proposal. Whatever you do, don&#8217;t comment on this post. Distraction from this distraction from my earlier distraction is A Bad Thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just got out of a meeting at which I learned the hourly operating cost of this research building. I&#8217;m not gonna tell you what it is, just that my jaw almost hit the floor. This new knowledge has inspired &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/11\/04\/i_have_been_distracted_from_my_distraction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}