{"id":3144,"date":"2018-12-02T07:05:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T20:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2019-07-04T05:54:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:54:44","slug":"persistence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/persistence\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in a new team tomorrow. All the panicky bells and whistles going, the familiar anxiety combo. But age &amp; experience have their advantage in that it&#8217;s all not so overwhelming anymore. Instead the pressure&#8217;s rather distilling. Boiling the essence out of my ingredients. I have learnt that my main USP is persistence. I tend to not give up. I might not be as diplomatic or graceful as others, but I do make things work.<\/p>\n<p>The thrust for that I get from a vast word-zoo in my head. Words are my shtick. In my mind, thoughts are roaming the wild like a bunch of liberated serengetians. For me, doing work and giving structure to a project is the side-noise that keeps me sane&#8230; and lets me ponder in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in a new team tomorrow. All the panicky bells and whistles going, the familiar anxiety combo. But age &amp; experience have their advantage in that it&#8217;s all not so overwhelming anymore. Instead the pressure&#8217;s rather distilling. Boiling the essence out of my ingredients. I have learnt that my main USP is persistence. I tend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","tag-performance-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3343,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}