{"id":102,"date":"2010-09-27T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pagan-gerbil.net\/?p=102"},"modified":"2010-09-27T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T12:49:00","slug":"validation-and-self-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Validation and self-worth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an answer accepted as <em>the<\/em> answer on Stack Overflow! I answered <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/401339\/open-microsoft-practices-enterpriselibrary-database-with-just-a-connection-string\/1601027#1601027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this question<\/a> absolutely ages ago, not expecting it to go anywhere (the question had already been answered, but I felt it was a valid, different approach) but slowly, over the months, it\u2019s been up-voted (until, I am pleased to say, it had a vote more than the accepted answer) and at the weekend the accepted answer was actually changed to my one.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me feel good, anyway. Now I just need to try hard and see if I can get some more &#8211; rather than my usual activity on there, asking tricky questions for which there isn\u2019t an easy answer (or in one deleted case, a simple answer I should really have spotted myself).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I answered a question: Woohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an answer accepted as the answer on Stack Overflow! I answered this question absolutely ages ago, not expecting it to go anywhere (the question had already been answered, but I felt it was a valid, different approach) but slowly, over the months, it\u2019s been up-voted (until, I am pleased to say, it had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/?p=102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Validation and self-worth!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}