{"id":12,"date":"2006-04-24T22:24:04","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T21:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paul.sinnett.name\/archives\/12"},"modified":"2006-08-20T21:42:31","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T20:42:31","slug":"its-the-routine-that-gets-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/archives\/12","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the routine that gets you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me the other day that video game characters run everywhere. I remember being chided by Lara Croft about that once. On the other hand it&#8217;s amazing how much time we waste each year doing routine tasks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I read <a title=\"article about the time spent commuting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.omninerd.com\/2006\/04\/21\/articles\/50\">an article<\/a> this morning about the time you could be wasting stuck in traffic. It got me thinking about the numbers. I work about 240 days of the year. So every minute I spend in a routine daily task comes to 4 hours per year. I spend about 10 minutes walking to work and 10 minutes walking back. That&#8217;s the equivalent of working an extra 10 days a year. One more selling point for teleworking &#8211; if the environmental arguments don&#8217;t yet have you convinced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me the other day that video game characters run everywhere. I remember being chided by Lara Croft about that once. On the other hand it&#8217;s amazing how much time we waste each year doing routine tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-process","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}