{"id":67935,"date":"2022-12-07T14:08:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=67935"},"modified":"2022-12-07T14:08:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:08:41","slug":"pointing-to-itself-is-the-most-self-centered-thing-i-can-imagine-in-computing-an-ideal-representation-of-the-more-vulgar-infinite-loop-pointing-to-null-is-a-metaphor-of-loneliness-with-tail-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=67935","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;pointing to itself is the most self centered thing I can imagine in computing: an ideal representation of the more vulgar infinite loop&#8230;pointing to NULL is a metaphor of loneliness&#8230;with tail and head connected, a powerful symbol of a closed cycle&#8221; https:\/\/t.co\/iLvEaHmnIu"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;pointing to itself is the most self centered thing I can imagine in computing: an ideal representation of the more vulgar infinite loop&#8230;pointing to NULL is a metaphor of loneliness&#8230;with tail and head connected, a powerful symbol of a closed cycle&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/t.co\/iLvEaHmnIu<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; Warren Myers \ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc3f (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1600491554526863361\">Dec 7, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>December 07, 2022 at 09:04AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;pointing to itself is the most self centered thing I can imagine in computing: an ideal representation of the more vulgar infinite loop&#8230;pointing to NULL is a metaphor of loneliness&#8230;with tail and head connected, a powerful symbol of a closed cycle&#8221; https:\/\/t.co\/iLvEaHmnIu &mdash; Warren Myers \ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc3f (@warrenmyers) Dec 7, 2022 from Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers December 07, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=67935\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;pointing to itself is the most self centered thing I can imagine in computing: an ideal representation of the more vulgar infinite loop&#8230;pointing to NULL is a metaphor of loneliness&#8230;with tail and head connected, a powerful symbol of a closed cycle&#8221; https:\/\/t.co\/iLvEaHmnIu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-67935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67936,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67935\/revisions\/67936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67935"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=67935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}