{"id":4069,"date":"2012-10-30T08:31:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T18:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2012-10-30T08:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T18:31:52","slug":"programming-distaste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/programming-distaste\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming distaste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I set in an all day PHP, JQuery meeting yesterday amongst campus developers. I thought to myself, &#8220;how is it I ended up being a web developer and I hate programming so much?&#8221; Is that odd? I mean, at one point in my life I really loved getting my hands dirty with this stuff&#8230;I programmed stuff on my Radio Shack Tandy machine in BASIC to do my homework for me. I used to build my own computers.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t know when but at some point I lost my taste for all of that. It&#8217;s like a little switch went off in my head I felt like I enjoyed appreciating the well-thought out end-result of design rather than the backend process. I just wanted stuff to work, is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n<p>So while the other programmers in the room &#8220;oohed&#8221; and &#8220;aaahed&#8221; over the JQuery syntax, I was more concerned about how I&#8217;d get the 400+ members of my college campus faculty on the same page with the new site map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set in an all day PHP, JQuery meeting yesterday amongst campus developers. I thought to myself, &#8220;how is it I ended up being a web developer and I hate programming so much?&#8221; Is that odd? I mean, at one point in my life I really loved getting my hands dirty with this stuff&#8230;I programmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-personal","category-webdesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}