{"id":2185,"date":"2012-12-06T23:07:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T06:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2012-12-06T23:07:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T06:07:20","slug":"10-000-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/12\/10-000-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"10 000 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So if it take ten thousand hours to get to really good at something, what have I spent that many hours doing?<\/p>\n<p>That reminds me also of the exercise thing, ten thousand steps &#8220;Take ten thousand steps every day and that will be enough exercie&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am trying to wiggle into the jeans of being 40, and I feel so kind of over. Like, I didn&#8217;t spend 8 hours a day practicing the piano. I will never ber great.<\/p>\n<p>So all right. Maybe I can be pretty good and manage 3 or 5 thousand hours. Is that enough?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m mentally high-fiving myself about all the books i&#8217;ve read. I&#8217;ve spent ten thousand hours reading, FOR SURE.<\/p>\n<p>but I&#8217;ve probably spent ten thousand hours eating. And that doesn&#8217;t qualify me for much. AND sleeping. So.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta do something with it or it&#8217;s not a thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So if it take ten thousand hours to get to really good at something, what have I spent that many hours doing? That reminds me also of the exercise thing, ten thousand steps &#8220;Take ten thousand steps every day and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/12\/10-000-hours\/\">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-2185","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":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}