{"id":128357,"date":"2015-10-19T23:09:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T05:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/overthinking-things.html"},"modified":"2015-10-22T12:17:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T18:17:48","slug":"overthinking-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/overthinking-things.html","title":{"rendered":"Overthinking things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p>(Original, with amusing hover text, here: <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1592\/\">http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1592\/<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6207499540988639569\/6207499547372016034'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-b2aNyqN1MjI\/ViV38xiB0aI\/AAAAAAADaoU\/MNjhP3U_FSE\/overthinking%255B1%255D.png?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/8xsLdjy1YYz'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh. 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