{"id":3379,"date":"2026-06-24T20:22:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:22:56","slug":"hyperbole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/24\/hyperbole\/","title":{"rendered":"hyperbole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a web comic a few years ago called Hyperbole and a Half.&nbsp; It was a semi-autobiographical series done painstakingly in MS Paint by a very funny and odd woman.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was also my first exposure to the word hyperbole &#8211; which is basically a fancy way of extreme exaggeration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With my\u2026well, let\u2019s just tell it like it is\u2026obsession with time, it makes sense that I would make liberal use of those in my conversations.&nbsp; I\u2019ve decided to quantify those measures below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Epoch = years ago, but feels like thousands of years<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nanosecond = a few minute\u2019s span of time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>20 minutes = a wildly variable span of time &#8211; weeks to years &#8211; that feels like it was over before it started<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>100 years = another wildly variable span of time &#8211; hours to days\u00a0 &#8211; that feels like forever.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The rest of my natural life = any project without a clear deadline, but will take longer than I want to think about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This blog, for example, feels somewhere between 20 minutes and the rest of my natural life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a web comic a few years ago called Hyperbole and a Half.&nbsp; It was a semi-autobiographical series done painstakingly in MS Paint by a very funny and odd woman.&nbsp; It was also my first exposure to the word hyperbole &#8211; which is basically a fancy way of extreme exaggeration.&nbsp; With my\u2026well, let\u2019s just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3380,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/3380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}