{"id":321,"date":"2005-04-21T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=321"},"modified":"2005-04-21T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T03:03:00","slug":"practice-ripening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/04\/21\/practice-ripening\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice Ripening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--111413396375166028--><\/p>\n<p>I met up with an old classmate today.  We hardly knew each other 15 years ago, haven&#8217;t talked since, and still I remembered him well.  Our meeting was a real pleasure.  <\/p>\n<p>More and more I find myself able to do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/wiki\/wiki.cgi?MichaelHermanAssociates\">business<\/a> with people I know and appreciate as friends, some old, some new, and some like today, a little of both.  It&#8217;s not about friends giving me work, but rather my work leading me to friends.  The joy of a practice ripening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met up with an old classmate today. We hardly knew each other 15 years ago, haven&#8217;t talked since, and still I remembered him well. Our meeting was a real pleasure. More and more I find myself able to do business with people I know and appreciate as friends, some old, some new, and some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/04\/21\/practice-ripening\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Practice Ripening&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-open-space-technology","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}