{"id":10866,"date":"2010-12-01T10:14:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10866"},"modified":"2010-12-01T10:14:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T14:14:23","slug":"defining-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10866","title":{"rendered":"Defining Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/food\/archive\/2010\/03\/going-rogue-americas-underground-chefs\/38090\/\">Masterchef Mark<\/a> has one of those Facebooky <i>things<\/i> up <a href='http:\/\/marklow.tumblr.com\/post\/2057885176\/bmichael-i-generally-think-this-crap-is-crap#note-container'>at his place<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFind the nearest book.<br \/>\nGo to page 73, 2nd paragraph down, 3rd sentence WILL DEFINE YOUR LIFE\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love these things because I love the absurdity of things taken out of context. So...<\/p>\n<p>Closest book was \"COBOL For Beginners\". Page 73 was a bullet-point list describing the features of the PERFORM keyword. No paragraphs, no bullet point had more than one sentence. Fail.<\/p>\n<p>Next closest \"book\" was a printout of the United States Postal Service's \"NCOA<sup>Link<\/sup> Software Developer Guide\". Page 73 has two charts describing how to properly use approved nicknames when doing an address lookup. Only one paragraph. Fail.<\/p>\n<p>Next closest book is a reference manual. Pages are not numbered. Fail.<\/p>\n<p>At which point I give up and conclude the obvious: my life is defined by reference manuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masterchef Mark has one of those Facebooky things up at his place: Find the nearest book. Go to page 73, 2nd paragraph down, 3rd sentence WILL DEFINE YOUR LIFE I love these things because I love the absurdity of things taken out of context. So... Closest book was \"COBOL For Beginners\". Page 73 was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}