{"id":846,"date":"2007-02-08T14:29:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T21:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2012-05-10T15:09:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T22:09:12","slug":"what-spock-taught-me-about-eating-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/02\/what-spock-taught-me-about-eating-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"What Spock taught me about eating Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listed to one of my favorite podcasts yesterday:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatfreefilm.com\/\">FatFreeFilm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I used to work with Joel, and I really love the interviews he does on this series. This latest one features Leonard Nimoy.<\/p>\n<p>SPOCK! I LOVE SPOCK!<\/p>\n<p>So I was pretty excited to hear the show. It was great, and at the end, during the &#8220;film bites&#8221; segment, Spock (sorry, Leonard, you&#8217;ll always be Spock to me) had some advice.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the overwhelming task of producing, funding, and generally making a film [I paraphrase]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Think of an elephant. If you had to eat an elephant in one day, you couldn&#8217;t manage it. But if you took one bite out of the elephant every day, with time, you will finish the elephant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a very encouraging thought.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish it didn&#8217;t seem like I had a herd of elephants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listed to one of my favorite podcasts yesterday: FatFreeFilm I used to work with Joel, and I really love the interviews he does on this series. This latest one features Leonard Nimoy. SPOCK! I LOVE SPOCK! So I was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/02\/what-spock-taught-me-about-eating-elephants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookworthy","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\/846","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}