{"id":715,"date":"2010-10-05T15:39:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/?p=715"},"modified":"2010-10-06T07:04:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T12:04:33","slug":"invisible-gorillas-in-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/invisible-gorillas-in-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Invisible gorillas&#8217; in your life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever failed to notice an &#8220;invisible gorilla&#8221; in your daily life?  Perhaps you were in a car accident and never saw the other car.  Maybe you were in a bicycle or motorcycle accident in which a car driver never saw you coming.  Or, maybe you missed an obvious business opportunity that was staring you in the face because you weren&#8217;t expecting it and were focused on something else.  Or, perhaps you missed an &#8220;obvious&#8221; opportunity in your personal life.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to hear about your experiences with those metaphorical &#8216;invisible gorillas&#8217; in your own life. If you can think of a way that invisible gorillas have affected you, please email me about it (dan@theinvisiblegorilla.com) or post a comment on this blog post.  I&#8217;ll compile the examples, and then I&#8217;ll randomly select one submitter to receive a free copy of the audiobook version of The Invisible Gorilla.  <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hear how invisible gorillas have affected you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever failed to notice an &#8220;invisible gorilla&#8221; in your daily life?  Perhaps you were in a car accident and never saw the other car.  Maybe you were in a bicycle or motorcycle accident in which a car driver never saw you coming.  Or, maybe you missed an obvious business opportunity [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote","category-examples","category-gorillas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}