{"id":4511,"date":"2021-03-09T23:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T06:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4511"},"modified":"2021-03-09T23:54:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T06:54:26","slug":"validate-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/03\/09\/validate-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Validate Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cDon\u2019t expect a pat on the back, just know you did your best,\u201d Ted\u2019s mentor in Rail Dispatch taught him the most important lesson. He was right. Ted never was acknowledged, but years later he validated himself.<\/p>\n<p>In the dimly lit Rail Control Center, while his colleagues were distracted by a stalled train, Ted studied his flickering console and alarm bells sounded in his head. Another commuter train would crash into it if he didn\u2019t act quickly to shunt it to a siding.<\/p>\n<p>Ted didn\u2019t wait to be feted as a hero. He just did the deed and thanked himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Marc Littman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon\u2019t expect a pat on the back, just know you did your best,\u201d Ted\u2019s mentor in Rail Dispatch taught him the most important lesson. He was right. Ted never was acknowledged, but years later he validated himself. In the dimly lit Rail Control Center, while his colleagues were distracted by a stalled train, Ted studied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9942,2776,6351,9943,9941,9940,9939,41,196,616,9010,3394,4756,2334],"class_list":["post-4511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alarm-bells","tag-back","tag-colleagues","tag-commuter-train","tag-console","tag-control-center","tag-dispatch","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hero","tag-lesson","tag-marc-littman","tag-mentor","tag-rail","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4512,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions\/4512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}