{"id":220,"date":"2001-08-02T18:39:32","date_gmt":"2001-08-02T23:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=220"},"modified":"2001-08-02T18:39:32","modified_gmt":"2001-08-02T23:39:32","slug":"and-i-need-this-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/08\/02\/and-i-need-this-because\/","title":{"rendered":"and i need this because&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curl.com\">solution looking for a problem<\/a>.  In order to figure out if this is worth anything, not only does this require me to load up their plugin that assumes the self-importance of putting itself in my system tray, all the docs require Acrobat.  Reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN%3D038071115X\/102-7980913-6796118\">Soul of a New Machine<\/a>, where they described kludgy addons as &#8220;hanging a bag off the side of the machine&#8221;.  Using this stuff with your browser is like riding around on a Grand Canyon pack mule.  Besides, whether it&#8217;s part of some nice design or not, languages with a &#8220;let&#8221; statement give me the creeps somehow.  It&#8217;s  a je-ne-sais-quoi sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another solution looking for a problem. In order to figure out if this is worth anything, not only does this require me to load up their plugin that assumes the self-importance of putting itself in my system tray, all the docs require Acrobat. Reminds me of Soul of a New Machine, where they described kludgy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}