{"id":28996,"date":"2021-09-24T07:56:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T12:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28996"},"modified":"2021-09-24T07:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T12:56:28","slug":"lileks-looks-down-on-brian-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/24\/lileks-looks-down-on-brian-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Lileks Looks Down On Brian J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks <a href=\"http:\/\/lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/21\/0921\/45.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">pities the technical writers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of course there were manuals. In binders. Sitting on the shelf of everyone&#8217;s desk. Never used. Tossed out en masse. I feel a bit of sympathy for the people who wrote them, but that&#8217;s probably misplaced. A job. They were paid. Wasn&#8217;t creative. Kept the lights on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;ve written manuals for money.  Pretty good money, actually. <\/p>\n<p>But one does not finish a manual or set of updates to documentation and feel any sense of creative accomplishment, for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of like writing a backwater blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks pities the technical writers: Of course there were manuals. In binders. Sitting on the shelf of everyone&#8217;s desk. Never used. Tossed out en masse. I feel a bit of sympathy for the people who wrote them, but that&#8217;s probably misplaced. A job. They were paid. Wasn&#8217;t creative. Kept the lights on. Yeah, I&#8217;ve written [&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-28996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28996","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=28996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28997,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28996\/revisions\/28997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}