{"id":1450,"date":"2007-10-10T22:23:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T05:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2007-10-10T23:07:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T06:07:23","slug":"im-still-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m still winning."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I found out that one of my co-workers is forwarding my blog posts to management.  While it was pointed out to me that things are looking much better than I was remembering last night, the fact that I have such co-workers is kind of disheartening. It&#8217;s not a surprise, just disheartening.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why anyone would care about what I say, and I was surprised that anyone even reads this drivel. (It&#8217;s practice for me, to keep up my writing chops.) But it has now been pointed out to me by friends that in this day and age I&#8217;m not allowed to have any public opinions, at least not about work. That&#8217;s even though I&#8217;m quite simple in my opinions. I don&#8217;t try to mislead anyone and it&#8217;s pretty obvious how I&#8217;m feeling whether I write it down or not. It&#8217;s just in this case, people who are assuming I&#8217;m fat, dumb, and happy realize that I&#8217;m only two of the three.<\/p>\n<p>It should also be obvious that I exaggerate things. I don&#8217;t usually name names, and even when I do people can be caricatures of the way they really are. I mean, how much fun would it be if I listed every little mundane detail about a person? It&#8217;s much better to point out interesting characteristics and anomalies. I just hope that anyone in a position of power above me possesses a sense of humor. In any case, I will now try to quit talking about work.<\/p>\n<p>I usually don&#8217;t comment on comments left on my blog, but I should point out that the theme of my blog is not <em>wowees me<\/em>. It&#8217;s <strong>WOE IS ME<\/strong>. I am aware that I am a bit of a <em>sad sack<\/em> and it does not need to be pointed out to me by strangers. However, I find that I must correct malapropisms. I hope this has helped to increase the literacy on the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I found out that one of my co-workers is forwarding my blog posts to management. While it was pointed out to me that things are looking much better than I was remembering last night, the fact that I have such co-workers is kind of disheartening. It&#8217;s not a surprise, just disheartening. I&#8217;m not sure why anyone would care about what I say, and I was surprised that anyone even reads this drivel. (It&#8217;s practice for me, to keep up my writing chops.) But it has now been pointed out to me by friends that in this day and age I&#8217;m not allowed to have any public opinions, at least &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m still winning.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}