{"id":87613822,"date":"2005-01-21T10:32:17","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613822"},"modified":"2005-01-24T23:59:15","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T07:59:15","slug":"what-youll-wish-youd-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613822","title":{"rendered":"What you&#8217;ll wish you&#8217;d known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulgraham.com\/hs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Graham<\/a> has this neat thing for a talk to a bunch of high school kids.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;ve read the <i>whole <\/i>thing, but this is a pretty good start:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll start by telling you something you don&#8217;t have to know in high school: what you want to do with your life. People are always asking you this, so you think you&#8217;re supposed to have an answer. But adults ask this mainly as a conversation starter. They want to know what sort of person you are, and this question is just to get you talking. They ask it the way you might poke a hermit crab in a tide pool, to see what it does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Check out the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/paulgraham.com\/hs.html\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham has this neat thing for a talk to a bunch of high school kids. I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;ve read the whole thing, but this is a pretty good start: I&#8217;ll start by telling you something you don&#8217;t have to know in high school: what you want to do with your life. People are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87613822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87613822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}