{"id":357,"date":"2003-10-20T21:13:10","date_gmt":"2003-10-21T00:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=357"},"modified":"2003-10-20T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2003-10-21T00:13:10","slug":"cloink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Cloink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>A<\/span>s a programmer I ask questions. That&#8217;s part of the job and eventually, it&#8217;s part of the nature. You ask questions because there&#8217;s a need for an answer: after all, it&#8217;s part of trying to find <em>the<\/em> solution for a problem. It&#8217;s not my nature to &#8216;second-guess&#8217; about a solution, and as such, I do expect the same behaviour and attitude from other programmers. We&#8217;re here for the solution, after all.\n<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to today, <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptingnews.userland.com\/2003\/10\/20\">Dave Winer&#8217;s item<\/a> over at respectable Scripting News. Winer notices that his blogging tool isn&#8217;t mentioned in Google&#8217;s directory of Weblog tools. Instead of asking questions, he ends up in an obnoxious rhetorical rant: the typical rant of a person who is obviously personally and emotionally too involved. I find this behaviour rather <em>unsettling<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a programmer I ask questions. That&#8217;s part of the job and eventually, it&#8217;s part of the nature. You ask questions because there&#8217;s a need for an answer: after all, it&#8217;s part of trying to find the solution for a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=357\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}