{"id":2184,"date":"2005-04-26T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2017-12-23T16:16:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T22:16:30","slug":"2184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/26\/2184\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: <i>The Official Rules at Work<\/i> by Paul Dickson (1996)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/076075456X\/qid=1114519443\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14\/002-2460678-5839219?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a> for $5.98 at Barnes and Noble because it looked interesting and because I had a gift card to blow.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a collection of aphorisms and &#8220;laws&#8221; coined by columnist, commentators, and humorists covering the workplace, and to be honest, covering working for the government in a lot of cases.  It&#8217;s a quick read, and a lot of the axioms and maxims provide crystallizations of core truths in a handy fashion that allow you to quip them.  For example, I&#8217;m going to use <i>It&#8217;s easier to defend consistency than correctness<\/i> as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it was a quick read while I work on the longer fiction books that I&#8217;m reading.  And to let you, gentle readers, that I am still literate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book for $5.98 at Barnes and Noble because it looked interesting and because I had a gift card to blow. It&#8217;s a collection of aphorisms and &#8220;laws&#8221; coined by columnist, commentators, and humorists covering the workplace, and to be honest, covering working for the government in a lot of cases. It&#8217;s 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":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","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=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19013,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/19013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}