{"id":140,"date":"2006-06-25T13:31:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T11:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=140"},"modified":"2006-06-25T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2006-06-25T11:31:12","slug":"work-glorious-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Work, glorious work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For someone who enjoys quotes such as <em>Men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams<\/em> and <em>Work is the systematic suppression of a person&#8217;s real desires<\/em>, I work insanely hard.<\/p>\n<p>The difference (so I tell myself) is that I enjoy what I do, I am not suppressing my true desires &#8211; it&#8217;s just that I have too many!<\/p>\n<p>I do have to cut down and prioritise though. I even to my annoyance missed the historic first <a href=\"http:\/\/mithrandr.moria.org\/bcct-planet\/\">BarCamp in Cape Town<\/a>, thanks to a few last-minute deadlines.<\/p>\n<p>I currently write one article a month for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.databasejournal.com\/\">Database Journal<\/a>, and another for <a href=\"http:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/\">PHPBuilder<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be cutting these down to one every two months. If anyone feels ready to leap into the gap and write one MySQL article a month, give me a shout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For someone who enjoys quotes such as Men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams and Work is the systematic suppression of a person&#8217;s real desires, I work insanely hard. The difference (so I tell myself) is that I enjoy what I do, I am not suppressing my true desires &#8211;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=140\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Work, glorious work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}