{"id":12357,"date":"2024-03-14T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T07:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=12357"},"modified":"2024-03-14T00:30:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T07:30:30","slug":"fifteen-minute-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=12357","title":{"rendered":"<q>Fifteen-Minute Problem<\/q>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often use the expression <q>15-minute problem<\/q> in reference to a problem that <em>could be<\/em> or <em>could have been<\/em> solved very quickly (epitomally in as little as fifteen minutes), but <em>won't be<\/em> or <em>wasn't<\/em> solved <em>quickly<\/em>, and perhaps wasn't solved <em>at all<\/em>, because <a href=\"?p=8950\">those who could have solved it<\/a> didn't want <em>to pay the cost of solving it<\/em>, and indeed may have regarded solving it in <em>any<\/em> manner to be <em>itself<\/em> a <em>cost<\/em>, rather than a benefit.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I often use the expression 15-minute problem in reference to a problem that could be or could have been solved very quickly (epitomally in as little as fifteen minutes), but won't be or wasn't solved quickly, and perhaps wasn't solved at all, because those who could have solved it didn't want to pay the cost [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,117,4],"tags":[1685,947,202,1686],"class_list":["post-12357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-communication","category-public","tag-15-minute-problems","tag-definitions","tag-everyday-frustrations","tag-fifteen-minute-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12358,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357\/revisions\/12358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}