{"id":888,"date":"2009-01-14T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2009\/01\/14\/stop-the-hurting-please-an-it-allegory\/"},"modified":"2009-01-14T16:29:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:29:36","slug":"stop-the-hurting-please-an-it-allegory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/14\/stop-the-hurting-please-an-it-allegory\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop The Hurting Please (An It Allegory)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I work in IT and a large part of my work is about supporting old applications and I have to say that this is so very true! read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bynkii.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/for_new_sysadminsit_types.html\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He chuckled, in that fucking annoying &#8220;Oh, you young lads, how funny you are&#8221; way that our elders have, and said:<br \/>\n&#8220;Being in IT is kind of like being a doctor with a patient who complains that &#8220;It hurts when I stick a fork in my eye.&#8221;<br \/>\nWe, of course, being the logical sort, reply back, in all sincerity and earnestness, &#8220;Well, you should stop sticking a fork in your eye then.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe user, or patient will then look at us like we really are the idiots they believe us to be and say: &#8220;No, you don&#8217;t understand&#8230;I want you to make it stop hurting.&#8221;&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bynkii.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/for_new_sysadminsit_types.html\"><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work in IT and a large part of my work is about supporting old applications and I have to say that this is so very true! read the whole thing here! He chuckled, in that fucking annoying &#8220;Oh, you young lads, how funny you are&#8221; way that our elders have, and said: &#8220;Being in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/14\/stop-the-hurting-please-an-it-allegory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stop The Hurting Please (An It Allegory)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}