{"id":391,"date":"2006-09-07T19:56:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T03:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/the-best-worst-day-ever\/"},"modified":"2006-09-07T19:56:22","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T03:56:22","slug":"the-best-worst-day-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/the-best-worst-day-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Worst Day Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a horrible day. It was also the greatest day I&#8217;ve had in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I did when I got into work is start writing a post-mortem report for a outage yesterday &#8211; always a great way to start a day. While I was writing it, a different outage occurred. The next few hours were spent following up on yesterday&#8217;s outage and gathering info on today&#8217;s outage. Lunch was consumed during an informative technical presentation while I checked my email. Then it was back to dealing with today&#8217;s outage and writing the post-mortem report for that. Two in one day is a record for me. <\/p>\n<p>Then my day turned around completely. A guy I&#8217;ve been trying to hire for a critical position accepted. A solution for a important problem that I have been pestered about constantly and we&#8217;ve been working on for weeks suddenly appeared. I got some great tickets for a Giants game. Then I had a quick meeting that turned out to be something amazing and unexpected. <\/p>\n<p>Then it was back to an interview, trying to get other people to help us meet our deadlines, post-mortem followups and general running around. I went home more exhausted than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it was the best worst day ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a horrible day. It was also the greatest day I&#8217;ve had in a long time. The first thing I did when I got into work is start writing a post-mortem report for a outage yesterday &#8211; always a great way to start a day. While I was writing it, a different outage occurred. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/the-best-worst-day-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Best Worst Day Ever&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}