{"id":1605,"date":"2012-05-30T22:20:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T05:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2012-05-30T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T05:20:39","slug":"what-the-nerds-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/05\/what-the-nerds-did\/","title":{"rendered":"what the nerds did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>they built something.<\/p>\n<p>One of my new friends described how he was forced out of his old job. &#8220;It was hard to leave behind what I had built&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I know.<\/p>\n<p>I told him he really needed to read Miriam. Miriam tells that story pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>But we were watching a documentary about the moon landing, and i realized&#8230;yeah. THAT. BUilding something. Not even a physical something, but building something.<\/p>\n<p>That is what I do. THat is what I am passionate about in my career.<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s why I tell people, just maintaning is not enough. It has to grow, and be improved upon.<\/p>\n<p>But the nerds did it. THe nerds did it because they all believed. And it cost them.<\/p>\n<p>But they still believe it was worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>they built something. One of my new friends described how he was forced out of his old job. &#8220;It was hard to leave behind what I had built&#8221; Yeah. I know. I told him he really needed to read Miriam. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/05\/what-the-nerds-did\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}