{"id":39,"date":"2016-10-15T13:14:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2016-10-15T13:43:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T13:43:01","slug":"get-adequate-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/15\/get-adequate-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Adequate Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43\" src=\"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1992-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"img_1992-crop\" width=\"200\" height=\"255\" \/>Dealing with employees requires\u00a0 infinite patience. I&#8217;ve worked hard to train each of them to dispense treats and pettings at specified hours. However, if you&#8217;ve ever dealt with humans, you know sometimes they are slow learners.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, when Nathan comes into the office in the mornings, I&#8217;ve got him up to par on dispensing treats immediately (even before he goes to his desk!). This took years of practice for him. I&#8217;m proud of him, though. He&#8217;s probably my greatest accomplishment. Trust me, he&#8217;s come a long way with little to go on.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy, on the other hand, has been a challenge. I&#8217;ve worked with her and worked with her and she is still inconsistent. One morning, despite my persistent reminders, she&#8217;ll walk right by the treats without dispensing any. The next morning, she&#8217;ll go to the refrigerator, to her desk, talk to the other humans, and then finally dispense treats. Other mornings, she won&#8217;t dispense any at all until my notifications\u00a0are noted by another office human and they remind\u00a0her to dispense. She&#8217;s going to take more work and possibly negative reinforcement. I&#8217;m considering a hairball reminder for her. Sometimes you have to be tough. I won&#8217;t like it any more than she will.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, training humans is hard work. It requires long nights of planning, and long days of effort. Be sure to get plenty of rest. I recommend between 21 and 23 hours per day. If you get below 20 hours, your performance will suffer and, therefore, so will your results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dealing with employees requires\u00a0 infinite patience. I&#8217;ve worked hard to train each of them to dispense treats and pettings at specified hours. However, if you&#8217;ve ever dealt with humans, you know sometimes they are slow learners. For instance, when Nathan comes into the office in the mornings, I&#8217;ve got him up to par on dispensing<a href=\"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/15\/get-adequate-rest\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/terrencesparkles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}