{"id":222,"date":"2006-11-07T11:13:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustinjessen.com\/2006\/11\/07\/quote-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2006-11-07T11:13:07","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T19:13:07","slug":"quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>To paraphrase Thomas Edison, sometimes interesting opportunities arrive dressed as a huge pain in the ass.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Todays little bit of wonderful comes from a podcast at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/2006\/11\/06\/productive-talk-06\/\">43 Folders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Getting things done (GTD) expert Merlin Mann chats with the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity\/dp\/0142000280\/sr=8-1\/qid=1162854802\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-4857433-8830424?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\">Getting Things Done<\/a> David Allen to discuss workday interruptions &#8211; when to block &#8217;em, and when to be open to them.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, the original quote by Thomas Edison goes something like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com\/\">lifehacker<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase Thomas Edison, sometimes interesting opportunities arrive dressed as a huge pain in the ass. Todays little bit of wonderful comes from a podcast at 43 Folders. Getting things done (GTD) expert Merlin Mann chats with the author of Getting Things Done David Allen to discuss workday interruptions &#8211; when to block &#8217;em, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/quote-of-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quote of the day<\/span> <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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}