{"id":759,"date":"2006-10-20T15:48:34","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T22:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=759"},"modified":"2006-10-20T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T22:48:34","slug":"adopting-a-standard-is-like-drinking-water-bumping-your-head-on-the-limits-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/adopting-a-standard-is-like-drinking-water-bumping-your-head-on-the-limits-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopting a standard is like drinking water, bumping your head on the limits of language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"When language goes on holiday\" href=\"http:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/when-language-goes-on-holiday.html\">An Antic Disposition: When language goes on holiday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lovely little post by Rob Weir. He namechecks Wittgenstein and Confucius in the first paragraph of a blog about open standards, so I had to link to him.  <\/p>\n<p>Rob exhorts you to work out what you want from a standard. If the benefits are there you should drink fully. But don&#8217;t do it because the EU says, or Microsoft astroturfers say.  Choosing to adopt a standard for the right reasons is like drinking a cool glass of water. It will slake a thirst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Antic Disposition: When language goes on holiday Lovely little post by Rob Weir. He namechecks Wittgenstein and Confucius in the first paragraph of a blog about open standards, so I had to link to him. Rob exhorts you to work out what you want from a standard. If the benefits are there you should<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-cf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}