{"id":371,"date":"2008-08-11T13:36:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T17:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2008-08-11T13:36:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T17:36:56","slug":"placeholder-post-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/placeholder-post-endings\/","title":{"rendered":"Placeholder Post: Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In lieu of a longer post still in the works, and with a nod to <a title=\"writing in the water: 'Is this ending predictable?'\" href=\"http:\/\/mapelba.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/10\/is-this-ending-predictable\/\" target=\"_blank\">writing in the water<\/a>&#8216;s current discussion of knowing when the story is done, and done well and <em>right<\/em>: I offer this, Folk Tale #6 from Book Two (&#8220;Fire&#8221;) of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FZen-Programming-Geoffrey-James%2Fdp%2F0931137098%2F&amp;tag=meaandpoi-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">The Zen of Programming<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five novices went into the master&#8217;s office, crying &#8220;Woe, woe! We have heard that our project may be cancelled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The master said, &#8220;All things continue until they stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hearing this, the novices returned to work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In lieu of a longer post still in the works, and with a nod to writing in the water&#8216;s current discussion of knowing when the story is done, and done well and right: I offer this, Folk Tale #6 from Book Two (&#8220;Fire&#8221;) of The Zen of Programming: Five novices went into the master&#8217;s office, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[247,37,20,5],"tags":[307,308,309],"class_list":{"0":"post-371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ruminations","7":"category-onlineworld","8":"category-programmingetc","9":"category-06_writing","10":"tag-zen-of-programming","11":"tag-endings","12":"tag-programming","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-5Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}