{"id":19341,"date":"2018-01-23T14:06:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19341"},"modified":"2018-01-23T15:08:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:08:34","slug":"the-uncomfortable-talk-with-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/23\/the-uncomfortable-talk-with-the-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The Uncomfortable Talk with the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my children ask me what I do for a living, I find it hard to explain what a software testing and quality assurance professional is.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/oldmanyellsatinternetcloud.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>They still don&#8217;t know, but they do know that what I do keeps me from entering the cool contests that our friends keep winning.  Because I&#8217;m not allowed to enter because I work there, but the friends can, and they win.  True story: Friends of mine have won thousands of dollars in prizes in contests for a company I&#8217;ve worked for.  So much that the company&#8217;s owner wondered if I was somehow scamming him.  Since I still work there, he must have believed my protestations of innocence, but there have been no more contests, which has severely limited my friends&#8217; collection of valuable comic books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my children ask me what I do for a living, I find it hard to explain what a software testing and quality assurance professional is. They still don&#8217;t know, but they do know that what I do keeps me from entering the cool contests that our friends keep winning. Because I&#8217;m not allowed to [&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-19341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19341","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=19341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19345,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19341\/revisions\/19345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}