{"id":10043,"date":"2024-07-18T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10043"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","slug":"power-of-a-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10043","title":{"rendered":"POWER OF A DEADLINE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s nothing like a firm deadline to motivate me.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandwiched between our anniversary getaway these last two days and a trip to Milwaukee for our nephew&#8217;s wedding this weekend, Melissa and I are frantically attempting to finish some home improvement projects.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it&#8217;s almost midnight and I am halfway through installing a new railing on the steps down to the basement.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240717_195827-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2252\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These steps have been rail-less ever since I ripped the old railing out as part of our updates to the house post-Haiti.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only 4 years or so!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it&#8217;s been a year and a half since the lack of railing contributed to Melissa breaking her toe!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now it needs to be finished by 2 pm tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will it happen?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only God knows.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now I&#8217;m off to take a power nap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing like a firm deadline to motivate me. Sandwiched between our anniversary getaway these last two days and a trip to Milwaukee for our nephew&#8217;s wedding this weekend, Melissa and I are frantically attempting to finish some home improvement projects. So it&#8217;s almost midnight and I am halfway through installing a new railing on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10045,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043\/revisions\/10045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}