{"id":931,"date":"2008-07-24T15:39:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T19:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=931"},"modified":"2008-07-24T15:39:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T19:39:10","slug":"ancient-chinese-proverb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/07\/24\/ancient-chinese-proverb\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Chinese Proverb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It is better to do something average than to wait until it is too late to do something spectacular.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I actually made that up, and I don&#8217;t mean to imply that you should aim for mediocrity. It&#8217;s certainly best to try to always do something spectacular. But sometimes I find myself spending forever trying to get something &#8220;just right,&#8221; before I realize that whatever I&#8217;m working on is losing relevance.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember the source, but someone once told me that a book is never finished, but that the publisher eventually forces the author to send it to the presses.<\/p>\n<p>Work towards something spectacular, but don&#8217;t lose sight of the fact that something spectacular that never gets released is, essentially, nothing at all.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is better to do something average than to wait until it is too late to do something spectacular. I actually made that up, and I don&#8217;t mean to imply that you should aim for mediocrity. It&#8217;s certainly best to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/07\/24\/ancient-chinese-proverb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}