{"id":37,"date":"2004-08-08T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2004-08-08T07:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2004-08-08T07:30:07","modified_gmt":"2004-08-08T07:30:07","slug":"on-biting-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"on biting bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Halavais summarizes very well in <a href=\"http:\/\/alex.halavais.net\/news\/index.php?p=779\">a recent posting<\/a> on quotidian IT hassles: &#8220;when it needs to be something that is consistently maintained, and when I want to consistently be able to do something a bit more fun on a Saturday, I need to bite the bullet and leave it to the pros, even if\u2014like paying someone to change the oil\u2014it grates just the tiniest bit.&#8221;<br \/>\nThese are, after all, productivity tools&#8230; and what matters to me is what can be done with them, not the details of how they work. &#8220;Now the dependencies start stacking up&#8221;, as he puts it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Halavais summarizes very well in a recent posting on quotidian IT hassles: &#8220;when it needs to be something that is consistently maintained, and when I want to consistently be able to do something a bit more fun on a Saturday, I need to bite the bullet and leave it to the pros, even if\u2014like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}