{"id":376,"date":"2017-07-03T16:05:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+JaniUusitalo\/posts\/SdxBKyoRQWV"},"modified":"2017-07-03T16:05:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T13:05:02","slug":"20170703-postaus-json","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/linkki\/376","title":{"rendered":"<svg class=\"svg-icon svg-icon-link\" aria-labelledby=\"title-69d933e43ed51\" role=\"img\"><title id=\"title-69d933e43ed51\">Link<\/title> <use href=\"#link\" xlink:href=\"#link\"><\/use> <\/svg>376"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+KajSotala\/posts\/GQGVF9wkYRt\">via Kaj Sotala<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Raymond Arnold:<\/p>\n<p>&gt; This is interesting as a more visceral and simple example of &quot;what could you accomplish if you just picked a thing and stuck with it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&gt; At 16, this guy decided to transform a desert sandbar near his home into a forest. Each day he planted another tree. 30 years later he&#039;d turned the desert sandbar into a forest bigger than Central Park.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; Making a forest may not be the thing you want to do, but I think it sets a useful lower bar for thing-you-can-do-with-your-life. You don&#039;t need radically rare skills or talents to do it. You just need to decide to. [edit: I guess you also need a sandbar]<\/p>\n<p>&gt; Is whatever you&#039;re planning on doing with the next 30 years of your life going to be at least as cool as building a forest bigger than Central Park?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/natural-sciences\/indian-man-who-planted-1360-acre-forest-now-plans-plant-another.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.treehugger.com\/assets\/images\/2012\/04\/forest-assam.jpg.600x315_q90_crop-smart.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Kaj Sotala Raymond Arnold: &gt; This is interesting as a more visceral and simple example of &quot;what could you accomplish if you just picked a thing and stuck with it.&quot; &gt; At 16, this guy decided to transform a desert sandbar near his home into a forest. Each day he planted another tree. 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14097],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}