{"id":8694,"date":"2020-05-13T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T21:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2020-05-13T17:53:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T21:53:19","slug":"two-graceful-finishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8694","title":{"rendered":"Two graceful finishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a rather odd feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Reposurgeon. It&#8217;s&#8230;done; it&#8217;s a finished tool, fully fit for its intended purposes. After nine years of work and thinking, there&#8217;s nothing serious left on the to-do list. Nothing to do until someone files a bug or something in its environment changes, like someone writing an exporter\/importer pair it doesn&#8217;t know about and should.<\/p>\n<p>When you wrestle with a problem that is difficult and worthy for long enough, the problem becomes part of you. Having that go away is actually a bit disconcerting, like putting your foot on a step that&#8217;s not there.  But it&#8217;s OK; there are lots of other interesting problems out there and I&#8217;m sure one will find me to replace reposurgeon&#8217;s place in my life.<\/p>\n<p>I might try to write a synoptic look back on the project at some point. <\/p>\n<p>Looking over some back blog posts on reposurgeon, I became aware that I never told my blog audience the last bit of the saga following my ankle surgery.  That&#8217;s because there was no drama. The ankle is now fully healed and as solidly functional as though I never injured it at all &#8211; I&#8217;ve even stopped having residual aches in damp weather.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently the internal cartilage healed up completely, which is far from a given with this sort of injury. My thanks to everyone who was supportive when I literally couldn&#8217;t walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a rather odd feeling. Reposurgeon. It&#8217;s&#8230;done; it&#8217;s a finished tool, fully fit for its intended purposes. After nine years of work and thinking, there&#8217;s nothing serious left on the to-do list. Nothing to do until someone files a bug or something in its environment changes, like someone writing an exporter\/importer pair it doesn&#8217;t&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8694\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two graceful finishes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-reposurgeon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8696,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/8696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}