{"id":2660,"date":"2026-07-31T16:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/07\/31\/what-id-tell-my-younger-self-at-that-desk-the-nos-arent-a-verdict-theyre-a-filter\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:30:54","slug":"what-id-tell-my-younger-self-at-that-desk-the-nos-arent-a-verdict-theyre-a-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/07\/31\/what-id-tell-my-younger-self-at-that-desk-the-nos-arent-a-verdict-theyre-a-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;d tell my younger self at that desk: the &#8220;no&#8221;s aren&#8217;t a verdict. They&#8217;re a filter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#039;d tell my younger self at that desk: the &quot;no&quot;s aren&#039;t a verdict. They&#039;re a filter.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2083228923874382245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#039;d tell my younger self at that desk: the &quot;no&quot;s aren&#039;t a verdict. They&#039;re a filter. Originally posted on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-posts","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}