{"id":13491,"date":"2014-05-14T09:04:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T14:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13491"},"modified":"2014-05-14T09:04:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T14:04:51","slug":"dreams-of-technical-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/14\/dreams-of-technical-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams of Technical Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tam K. says she&#8217;s no technical writer, but she <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2014\/05\/unqualified.html\" target=\"_blank\">dreamed of it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anyhow, how I wound up with this gig I don&#8217;t know, because technical writing really isn&#8217;t my bag, baby. And I was getting all bogged down in nomenclature arguments about everything from pistol parts to horse tack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can tell she&#8217;s not a <em>real<\/em> technical writer.  <em>Real<\/em> technical writers don&#8217;t get bogged down in what technical terms to use; they just rearrange the sentences provided by the engineers without comprehending the content or terms.<\/p>\n<p>No, <em>real<\/em> technical writers get bogged down in Times New Roman versus Garamond.<\/p>\n<p>Take my word for it.  I&#8217;ve sat in multi-hour meetings hashing it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tam K. says she&#8217;s no technical writer, but she dreamed of it: Anyhow, how I wound up with this gig I don&#8217;t know, because technical writing really isn&#8217;t my bag, baby. And I was getting all bogged down in nomenclature arguments about everything from pistol parts to horse tack. You can tell she&#8217;s not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13494,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13491\/revisions\/13494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}