{"id":2473,"date":"2009-12-11T03:35:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T08:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2009-12-11T03:35:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T08:35:59","slug":"advicestep-one-is-admitting-you-have-a-problem-37signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/11\/advicestep-one-is-admitting-you-have-a-problem-37signals\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice::Step one is admitting you have a problem &#8211; (37signals)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Being addicted to your work might be slightly better than a coke habit, but it follows the same pattern of abuse and escapism. And most importantly, it is not a requirement for success. You do not have to become an addict to run a startup. Be passionate, be obsessed, but don\u2019t let it be an excuse for consuming your life.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2051-step-one-is-admitting-you-have-a-problem\">Step one is admitting you have a problem &#8211; (37signals)<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Life is about balance.\u00a0 Most addictions are not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being addicted to your work might be slightly better than a coke habit, but it follows the same pattern of abuse and escapism. And most importantly, it is not a requirement for success. You do not have to become an addict to run a startup. Be passionate, be obsessed, but don\u2019t let it be an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/11\/advicestep-one-is-admitting-you-have-a-problem-37signals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advice::Step one is admitting you have a problem &#8211; (37signals)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-for-the-day","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}