{"id":412,"date":"2008-04-17T15:37:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T15:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2008-04-17T15:37:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T15:37:38","slug":"an-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/an-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"an observation &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<pre>\r\nIt must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, \r\nmore doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to managment than \r\nthe creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all \r\nwho would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely \r\nlukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.\r\n    -Machiavelli\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; isn&#8217;t that the truth &#8230; resonates with something Justin said earlier during a very useful and very motivating brainstorming session here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talis.com\">work<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to managment than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/an-observation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[382,399],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal","tag-talis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}