{"id":312,"date":"2002-03-17T00:34:59","date_gmt":"2002-03-17T05:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=312"},"modified":"2002-03-17T00:34:59","modified_gmt":"2002-03-17T05:34:59","slug":"in-the-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2002\/03\/17\/in-the-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"in the zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been working hard on a project lately and I&#8217;m just rounding the corner into the home stretch.  All features in and unit tested, checked in to CVS.  System testing to follow.  It&#8217;s a nice feeling.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been truly in the zone on this particular project.  Nobody could quite understand the intensity if they haven&#8217;t been through it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like carving.  I&#8217;ve been told that to carve a bear, you take a block of wood and cut away all the bits that don&#8217;t look like a bear.  When you&#8217;re in the zone, you instinctively know where you&#8217;re going, which bits to whittle.<\/p>\n<p>If I stand back and look at its beginnings and where it is now, I find it difficult to comprehend the complexities, but when you&#8217;re sculpting in the zone, the shavings just fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been working hard on a project lately and I&#8217;m just rounding the corner into the home stretch. All features in and unit tested, checked in to CVS. System testing to follow. It&#8217;s a nice feeling. I&#8217;ve been truly in the zone on this particular project. Nobody could quite understand the intensity if they haven&#8217;t been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}