{"id":2156,"date":"2003-09-04T20:48:23","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T23:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=572"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:31:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:31:50","slug":"litany-against-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/09\/04\/litany-against-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Litany Against Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so busy, I absolutely had to post this one <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_lol.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_lol.gif\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codepoetry.net\/archives\/2003\/09\/04\/litany_against_meetings.php\">codepoetry<\/a> pointed me at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decafbad.com\/blog\/geek\/litany_meetings.html\">0xDECAFBAD<\/a> who writes (&#8220;courtesy of purl&#8221;, whatever <em>that<\/em> means)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I must not attend meetings. Meetings are the mind killer. Meetings are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my meeting. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the wasted time has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this is absolute gibberish to you, you haven&#8217;t read Frank Herbert&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0441172717\/\">Dune<\/a>, or any of its sequels. I wish I could read it again for the first time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so busy, I absolutely had to post this one . codepoetry pointed me at 0xDECAFBAD who writes (&#8220;courtesy of purl&#8221;, whatever that means) I must not attend meetings. Meetings are the mind killer. Meetings are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my meeting. I will permit it to pass over me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","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-yM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","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=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}