{"id":13,"date":"2006-04-19T16:58:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T20:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2006-04-27T16:36:01","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T20:36:01","slug":"commence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Commence."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate mission statements.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t provide vision. They don&#8217;t map strategy. No matter what fancy words are used, they all boil down to the same message. &#8216;We&#8217;re going to be the best at what we do&#8217;. Well, duh.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no mission statement here. There will be no synergy, nothing value-added, nothing leveraged. Here, at the beginning, there is only me and my words.<\/p>\n<p>Hi.<\/p>\n<p>This is, and will be, the story of a life. Of a boy and the girl who loves him.  It will be told from the boy&#8217;s perspective because, well, it&#8217;s his website. And he&#8217;s kind of vain like that.<\/p>\n<p>The story started long ago. It twisted and turned, as stories do. Charcters came and went, fortunes rose and fell. Friends were made; so were enemies.  It was, and continues to be no spicier a story than anyone else could tell. But it is his story, and the whole point of being here is to tell it.<\/p>\n<p>It might not come in order. Scratch that: it definitely won&#8217;t come in order. It&#8217;s going to start somewhere in the middle. It&#8217;ll jump backward from time to time. It might make side trips, it might jump all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>But here the story starts. Starts again, for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Having a hard time figuring me out? Hell, I&#8217;m having a hard time figuring me out. But here&#8217;s where I&#8217;ll do it. On the web, here I am.<\/p>\n<p>And here I go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate mission statements. They don&#8217;t provide vision. They don&#8217;t map strategy. No matter what fancy words are used, they all boil down to the same message. &#8216;We&#8217;re going to be the best at what we do&#8217;. Well, duh. There &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=13\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}