{"id":139,"date":"2015-08-03T07:51:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T14:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sombermoose.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2025-09-08T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:10:46","slug":"things-almost-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sombermoose.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/03\/things-almost-work-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Almost Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite Gary Larson &#8220;Far Side&#8221; cartoons features a dog walking behind a lawnmower which has cut an erratic path through the lawn. The dog&#8217;s owner on the porch is admonishing the dog and hollering &#8220;Bad dog! You call that mowing the lawn?&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I complain about my technology I feel as if I&#8217;m following the example of the man on the porch: witnessing a near miracle, and complaining about its lack of perfection. All in all, it is amazing that this stuff does what it does as <i>well<\/i>&nbsp;as it does. Still, it sometimes feels necessary to complain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite Gary Larson &#8220;Far Side&#8221; cartoons features a dog walking behind a lawnmower which has cut an erratic path through the lawn. The dog&#8217;s owner on the porch is admonishing the dog and hollering &#8220;Bad dog! You call that mowing the lawn?&#8221;.&nbsp; When I complain about my technology I feel as if I&#8217;m following the example of the man on the porch: witnessing a near miracle, and complaining about its lack of perfection. All in all, it is amazing that this stuff does what it does as well&nbsp;as it does. Still, it sometimes feels necessary to complain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sombermoose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sombermoose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sombermoose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sombermoose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sombermoose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sombermoose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/sombermoose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sombermoose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sombermoose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sombermoose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}