{"id":10976,"date":"2008-04-28T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T17:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/28\/brick-wall\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T17:59:06","slug":"brick-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/28\/brick-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say you had pancreatic cancer and less than six months to live. Forecasting what I might do in such a situation is unthinkable&#8211;at least on a Monday morning&#8211;but if I displayed 1\/10 the courage and class of Randy Pausch, I would be proud.<\/p>\n<p>Rand wrote the Last Lecture. And it&#8217;s a good thing he did.<\/p>\n<p>Watch it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo\">youtube.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~pausch\/Randy\/pauschlastlecturetranscript.pdf\">pdf transcript<\/a> of the lecture.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some very powerful ideas in his oration, including:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; . . . experience is what you get when you didn&#8217;t get what you wanted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; . . . brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say you had pancreatic cancer and less than six months to live. Forecasting what I might do in such a situation is unthinkable&#8211;at least on a Monday morning&#8211;but if I displayed 1\/10 the courage and class of Randy Pausch, I would be proud. Rand wrote the Last Lecture. And it&#8217;s a good thing he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}