{"id":200,"date":"2008-11-26T20:26:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T03:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/the-fifth-law\/"},"modified":"2008-11-26T20:26:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T03:26:39","slug":"the-fifth-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/the-fifth-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The fifth law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or maybe the zeroth. :)<\/p>\n<p>My boss added a 5th law of PMing today:<br \/>\n5. If you think you just received everything you need to move forward, chances are good you&#8217;re wrong.<\/p>\n<p>A moment ago, I was sitting, carefully removing pumpkin puree from my hand blender with a finger, and wondering how many other people like (plain) pumpkin enough to eat puree off an implement. This is fairly flavorful pumpkin &#8212; I&#8217;ve definitely had pumpkin that&#8217;s bland enough I wouldn&#8217;t eat it plain &#8212; but I suspect the desire to eat any kind of pumpkin plain is not that great in most people. Add sugar and spice and all that&#8217;s nice and it&#8217;s a different story, of course.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;m getting comment-spammed so badly that I basically can&#8217;t take the time to find any new &#8220;good&#8221; commenters out of the mess. So if you&#8217;ve left a comment recently and not seen it show up, sorry, it went in the dustbin along with the hundreds of spam comments. Mail me if you need to get approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or maybe the zeroth. :) My boss added a 5th law of PMing today: 5. If you think you just received everything you need to move forward, chances are good you&#8217;re wrong. A moment ago, I was sitting, carefully removing pumpkin puree from my hand blender with a finger, and wondering how many other people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,14,45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}