{"id":612,"date":"2020-09-07T20:57:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T04:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2020-09-07T20:57:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T04:57:58","slug":"boiling-a-swimming-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/07\/boiling-a-swimming-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Boiling a swimming pool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was using an electric air pump to blow up an inflatable pool today and the sections that I needed to inflate were different sizes. Some were small and inflated really quickly. Others were so large that I wasn\u2019t sure that they were inflating at all, because the initial evidence of progress was so hard to detect.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It reminded me of one time when I was swimming laps and felt like I was going&nbsp; nowhere as I stared at the roof, but when I looked at the lane ropes next to me, it was obvious I was moving along and making progress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to boil the ocean, then start with a swimming pool. And if you want to boil a swimming pool, then start with a kettle\u2019s worth of water.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Progress deserves to be detected, felt, and appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was using an electric air pump to blow up an inflatable pool today and the sections that I needed to inflate were different sizes. Some were small and inflated really quickly. Others were so large that I wasn\u2019t sure that they were inflating at all, because the initial evidence of progress was so hard &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/07\/boiling-a-swimming-pool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Boiling a swimming pool&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}