{"id":49,"date":"2015-04-29T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2015\/04\/29\/like-some-sort-of-optical-illusion-not-everyone\/"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:23:00","slug":"like-some-sort-of-optical-illusion-not-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2015\/04\/29\/like-some-sort-of-optical-illusion-not-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Like some sort of optical illusion, not everyone sees this as a GQM situation right away:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c\u2026 [he] began reminiscing about his job as a lineman, in the early nineteen-sixties, for a power company in Wyoming. Copper wire was expensive, and the linemen were instructed to return all unused pieces three feet or longer. No one wanted to deal with the paperwork that resulted, [he] said, so he and his colleagues found a solution: putting `shorteners\u2019 on the wire\u2014that is, cutting it into short pieces and tossing the leftovers at the end of the workday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hints\/spoiler in the comments&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2006\/11\/27\/the-next-act\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2006\/11\/27\/the-next-act<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026 [he] began reminiscing about his job as a lineman, in the early nineteen-sixties, for a power company in Wyoming. Copper wire was expensive, and the linemen were instructed to return all unused pieces three feet or longer. No one wanted to deal with the paperwork that resulted, [he] said, so he and his colleagues&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2015\/04\/29\/like-some-sort-of-optical-illusion-not-everyone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Like some sort of optical illusion, not everyone sees this as a GQM situation right away:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-perils-of-metrics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}