{"id":1018,"date":"2007-10-29T00:13:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T04:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/ive-said-it-before-and-ill-say-it-again\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T00:16:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T04:16:37","slug":"ive-said-it-before-and-ill-say-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/ive-said-it-before-and-ill-say-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve said it before, and I&#8217;ll say it again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the computer industry is a scam.<\/p>\n<p>Now, normally when I say this, I mean something about the broad &#8220;knowledge industry&#8221;, and how commercial software developers are amongst the most highly-paid people who only theoretically<footnote>&#8230;and I would say NOT practically<\/footnote> contribute to society.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is also true on a much more retail level:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jxSr2W6YjGc&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&#8230;the computer industry is a scam. Now, normally when I say this, I mean something about the broad &#8220;knowledge industry&#8221;, and how commercial software developers are amongst the most highly-paid people who only theoretically&#8230;and I would say NOT practically contribute to society. However, it is also true on a much more retail level: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/ive-said-it-before-and-ill-say-it-again\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[29,30],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-computer-industry","tag-scam","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-gq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}