{"id":39,"date":"2003-09-24T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Miscellany\/gratification.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"gratification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2003\/09\/24\/gratification\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Gratification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting at my desk today at work, trying desparately not to lose my mind.  My task for the last several days has been to redo some work I did about a year and a half ago.  I was tired and uninspired.  Coffee was losing its magic, and I&#8217;d been through most of my music collection.  Good music is my magic pill when grinding out code (or templates, what have you), but I couldn&#8217;t find what I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>So I reached into my briefcase, grabbed the Powerbook, and hopped on the iTunes Music Store.  A few minutes of browsing later, I saw something by Eric Clapton.  I suddenly remembered I&#8217;ve been meaning to replace my lost copy of <cite>Eric Clapton Unplugged<\/cite> for a couple of years now.  Minutes later I was listening to track 1 as the rest of the album was downloading.<\/p>\n<p>Instant gratification is so&#8230; gratifying.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting at my desk today at work, trying desparately not to lose my mind. My task for the last several days has been to redo some work I did about a year and a half ago. I was tired and uninspired. Coffee was losing its magic, and I&#8217;d been through most of my [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}