{"id":1733,"date":"2006-05-21T20:57:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T23:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1775"},"modified":"2010-05-08T19:53:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T22:53:40","slug":"sentence-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/21\/sentence-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentence of the week."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe of the month. This is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/how_to\/tricks_of_the_trade.php\">Tricks of the Trade<\/a>, by Matthew Baldwin (aka the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defectiveyeti.com\/\">Defective Yeti<\/a>), my emphasis added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every year there seems to be a technical whatsit that management recognizes as the sexy-cool new thing but doesn&#8217;t really understand. This year, for instance, a programmer can always tack the phrase &#8220;and I&#8217;m thinking of incorporating some XML functionality&#8221; onto a project summary to explain why he&#8217;l need an extra week, account for a missed deadline, or impress a superior. <strong>In this respect, the gap between software engineers and birthday clowns is almost negligible<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe of the month. This is from Tricks of the Trade, by Matthew Baldwin (aka the Defective Yeti), my emphasis added: Every year there seems to be a technical whatsit that management recognizes as the sexy-cool new thing but doesn&#8217;t really understand. This year, for instance, a programmer can always tack the phrase &#8220;and I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev","tag-humor"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-rX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}