{"id":130,"date":"2012-09-17T16:12:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T16:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=130"},"modified":"2012-09-18T16:12:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T16:12:31","slug":"the-start-of-the-northern-ren-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2012\/09\/17\/the-start-of-the-northern-ren-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"The start of the Northern Ren lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I actually started my presentation today, though I started late; I had about two hours of (paying) chip work to do first.\u00a0 As per usual, until I\u2019m right up at the deadline, I really have no motivation to get this thing done.\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019m definitely prone to procrastination, but I also perform better under pressure and right now, the pressure is off.\u00a0 Instead of blazing through the presentation, I spent the afternoon watching video lectures on Northern Renaissance, looking for additional ideas and insights.\u00a0 Alas, the lecturer was both boring and also didn\u2019t tell me anything I didn\u2019t already know.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019ll make due with what I\u2019ve amassed so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually started my presentation today, though I started late; I had about two hours of (paying) chip work to do first.\u00a0 As per usual, until I\u2019m right up at the deadline, I really have no motivation to get this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2012\/09\/17\/the-start-of-the-northern-ren-lecture\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}