{"id":166,"date":"2008-08-25T02:47:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T06:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2008-08-25T02:47:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T06:47:50","slug":"randy-pausch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Randy Pausch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I didn&#8217;t know who Randy Pausch was, and I admit that I stumbled upon his speech and his story quite accidently. After learning the backstory, I watched the speech, and was just captivated.  Although titled &#8216;Achieving your childhood dreams&#8217; it boils down to passing on all the lessons learned on how to live a good life.  When he revealed his true intention for giving the speech at the end, I just had a lump in my throat and it was one of those rare moments where I was truly moved.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I&#8217;m not sure why it&#8217;s no longer on youtube, but I did find a shorter version of his speech here-<br \/>\n<embed id=\"VideoPlayback\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=8577255250907450469&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=true\" style=\"width:400px;height:326px\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"> <\/embed><\/p>\n<p>If you have an hour to watch the entire speech, or want to read the book (I&#8217;m halfway through); both can be found here-<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/uls\/journeys\/randy-pausch\/index.html<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend checking it out, it&#8217;s time well spent.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I didn&#8217;t know who Randy Pausch was, and I admit that I stumbled upon his speech and his story quite accidently. After learning the backstory, I watched the speech, and was just captivated. Although titled &#8216;Achieving your childhood dreams&#8217; it boils down to passing on all the lessons learned on how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}