{"id":28726,"date":"2012-06-26T21:43:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T21:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/26\/see-when-youre-programming-too-the-world-grows\/"},"modified":"2012-06-26T21:43:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T21:43:17","slug":"see-when-youre-programming-too-the-world-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/26\/see-when-youre-programming-too-the-world-grows\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>See, when you\u2019re programming too, the world grows small and still. You forget about everything else. You\u2019re in a zone. There are no backward glances. The sound and the lights keep pushing you onwards. You gather pace. You keep on going. The variations comply. The sound funnels inwards to a point, like an explosion seen in reverse. Everything comes down to a single point. It might be a voice recognition program, or a chess hack, or writing lines for a Boeing helicopter radar \u2014 it doesn\u2019t matter: the only thing you care about is the next line coming your way. On a good day it can be a thousand lines. On a bad one you can\u2019t find where it all falls apart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Sam Peters, in\u00a0<span><em><span>Let the Great World Spin<\/span><\/em><span> by Colum McCann<\/span><\/span> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cincodenada.tumblr.com\/\">cincodenada<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See, when you\u2019re programming too, the world grows small and still. You forget about everything else. You\u2019re in a zone. There are no backward glances. The sound and the lights keep pushing you onwards. You gather pace. You keep on going. The variations comply. The sound funnels inwards to a point, like an explosion seen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/26\/see-when-youre-programming-too-the-world-grows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8626,7383,8625],"class_list":["post-28726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-because-this-is-a-description-i-have-pretty-much-penned-before","tag-flail","tag-this-is-why-i-miss-coding","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}