{"id":3130,"date":"2010-05-15T16:59:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T07:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2010-05-15T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T08:07:10","slug":"cautionary-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/15\/cautionary-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Cautionary Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 4:30pm on a sunny Saturday afternoon. I am sitting at my balcony in my underwear, sipping on a gin &#038; tonic, putting together some very repetitive music on my laptop while waiting for the <a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/10\/new-toy\/\">lab&#8217;s computers<\/a> to spit out some results.<\/p>\n<p>I am also holding a high-pressure water gun, carefully aimed at the neighbourhood pigeons, patiently waiting for them to get within range.<\/p>\n<p>What? <\/p>\n<p>Oh, <em>me too<\/em>: I used to have a real job, wearing ties and fine Italian suits every day, working some place where people would say things like &#8220;synergy&#8221;, &#8220;milestone&#8221; and &#8220;ballpark estimate&#8221;, while planning the next meeting on their Palm Pilot&#8230; You bet I did.<\/p>\n<p>But you go ahead: judge me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 4:30pm on a sunny Saturday afternoon. I am sitting at my balcony in my underwear, sipping on a gin &#038; tonic, putting together some very repetitive music on my laptop while waiting for the lab&#8217;s computers to spit out some results. I am also holding a high-pressure water gun, carefully aimed at the neighbourhood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-too-much-caffeine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}