{"id":2,"date":"2004-04-16T00:18:38","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T05:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=2"},"modified":"2005-09-24T20:29:30","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T14:59:30","slug":"the-re-examined-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200404\/the-re-examined-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Re-Examined Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I thought, “Maybe I should restart my blog.”<\/p>\n

Then I thought, “But I want a beautiful new design first!”<\/p>\n

And then I thought, “If I wait till I complete the redesign I’ll never start the blog.”<\/p>\n

And then I thought, “If I start the blog, I’ll be so busy writing content that I will never get around to completing the design”<\/p>\n

And then I thought, “hmmm…”<\/p>\n

And then I thought, “Maybe I should choose such a horrible template that my readers will beg<\/i> me to come up with a better one.”<\/p>\n

And then I thought, “Look at it this way, lots of readers == lots of beta testers for my new design, whenever it comes up…”<\/p>\n

And so I agreed with myself. <\/p>\n

And then it came about that I chose a MovableType template that I disliked the least and replaced my stylesheet.<\/p>\n

It was thus that I created this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I thought, “Maybe I should restart my blog.” Then I thought, “But I want a beautiful new design first!” And then I thought, “If I wait till I complete the redesign I’ll never start the blog.” And then I thought, “If I start the blog, I’ll be so busy writing content that I will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}