{"id":539,"date":"2008-11-20T09:52:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T08:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2008-11-20T10:35:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T09:35:35","slug":"the-what-if-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/the-what-if-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"The what-if factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on, with excellent writing of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jon Courtenay Grimwood\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.j-cg.co.uk\/\">Jon Courtenay Grimwood<\/a> author of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Arabesk (Arabesk Trilogy)\" rel=\"amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Arabesk-Trilogy-Jon-Courtenay-Grimwood\/dp\/0575081325%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0575081325\">Arabesk<\/a>. There&#8217;s a brief quote that&#8217;s probably going to save you some insanity in future, if you remember to use it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;About Avatar. You know, back when he was a kid, was it right to take him home with me &#8211; or was I just being a spoilt brat &#8230; ?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Ah,&#8221; Raf smiled. &#8220;The <\/strong><em><strong>what<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>-if<\/strong><\/em><strong> factor.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zara stared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;For every action we take,&#8221; said Raf, &#8220;there&#8217;s probably a better one.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you have it. Don&#8217;t worry and just try to optimize your further actions \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/91b52a6b-4387-4141-a779-6694871c42ee\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=91b52a6b-4387-4141-a779-6694871c42ee\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on, with excellent writing of Jon Courtenay Grimwood author of Arabesk. There&#8217;s a brief quote that&#8217;s probably going to save you some insanity in future, if you remember to use it: &#8220;About Avatar. You know, back when he was a kid, was it right to take him home with me &#8211; or was I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[535,503,547],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-arabesk","tag-jon-courtenay-grimwood","tag-quote"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}