{"id":561,"date":"2011-08-25T21:50:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T01:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:53:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:53:55","slug":"distractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Distractions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day my wife Carolyn commented that life, at least in the U.S., seemed so full of distractions.\u00a0 I never gave it much thought, but now that I do, I see that she is, for once, right.\u00a0 Sports seasons run non-stop and if there is an hour empty of a championship run, there are always re-runs.\u00a0 So what’s the problem?\u00a0 Just this.\u00a0 You may have noticed things are pretty bad right now.\u00a0 To get us out of this mess we are going to have to think as well as act.\u00a0 While I enjoy a good football game or any number of other sports, we needn’t think
\nthings will get any better if we all stay in a state of suspended animation.\u00a0 So spend some of that arm chair quarterbacking time discussing\u00a0 how we can make this a better world, one family at a time.\u00a0 Here is a good place to start, the life and philosophy of W. Edwards Deming at http:\/\/demingcollaboration.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day my wife Carolyn commented that life, at least in the U.S., seemed so full of distractions.\u00a0 I never gave it much thought, but now that I do, I see that she is, for once, right.\u00a0 Sports seasons … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}