{"id":874,"date":"2007-04-07T16:01:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T23:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=874"},"modified":"2007-04-07T16:01:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T23:01:21","slug":"february-25-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/04\/february-25-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"February 25, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a job, and I am pleased that I have a job.<\/p>\n<p>But there are times in any job that are less than pleasant. Times when you are faced on all sides with a Catch 22.<\/p>\n<p>So today, I had a lot of those.<\/p>\n<p>But the thing that took the cake&#8230;My Own Personal Point of Pride&#8230;Yesterday, a local deity asked me to write some instructions.<\/p>\n<p>I lay aside the fact that to create these instructions is to create and distribute a sharp pointy stick than is meant for poking me.<\/p>\n<p>It had to be done, and I understood why. A global deity needed appeasement, and it took this sharp pointy stick distribution plan.<\/p>\n<p>Fine.<\/p>\n<p>BUT! When I carefully WROTE the instructions, the local deity carefully took the beautiful succinct clear phrases and instructions and made them longer, more confusing and ugly&#8230;hoh..<\/p>\n<p>it is one thing to write something badly, and never get around to finishing making the writing better.<\/p>\n<p>I do that practically every day on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>but to take pretty, crafted words and MAKE THEM WORSE ON PURPOSE!<\/p>\n<p>it wounds me.<\/p>\n<p>It wounds me more that I must send them out as if they were my own. It&#8217;s like wearing a sign that says &#8220;i&#8217;m stoopid&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SIGH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a job, and I am pleased that I have a job. But there are times in any job that are less than pleasant. Times when you are faced on all sides with a Catch 22. So today, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/04\/february-25-2003\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/04\/february-25-2003\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-favorites"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}