{"id":1157,"date":"2005-12-26T11:55:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T16:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/26\/flying-meat\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:15:02","slug":"flying-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/26\/flying-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gusmueller.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/25.html\">Gus Mueller<\/a> writes about how he became an &ldquo;independent programmer in just 1068 days&rdquo;:\n<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.gusmueller.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/25.html\">\n<p>\nWhen I started writing software on the side for fun, it never really crossed my mind that I would be able to to support myself and do it full time. Of course, the dream was there in the back of my head, but I didn&rsquo;t think it was actually attainable. I figured my best bet was to become a good enough programmer to work for a decent mac company some day.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gus Mueller writes about how he became an &ldquo;independent programmer in just 1068 days&rdquo;: When I started writing software on the side for fun, it never really crossed my mind that I would be able to to support myself and do it full time. Of course, the dream was there in the back of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-08-11T14:15:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"f5fcf17c-e2a2-45b4-b48c-ffdca50d93b7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-08-11T14:15:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A9fzxfOKiRbS0jP_cpQ2Ttw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,2951],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-indie-development"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52887,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/52887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}