{"id":59,"date":"2002-05-14T20:57:37","date_gmt":"2002-05-14T20:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=59"},"modified":"2002-05-14T20:57:37","modified_gmt":"2002-05-14T20:57:37","slug":"thinking_outsid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Thinking outside the box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a box in the hallway yesterday. IBM uses a lot of paper, so there are often empty boxes around, of the sort that hold ten reams of paper. Usually I take them home; they have handles and removable tops, and make good storage boxes for all kinds of things. But I didn&#8217;t take this one home. I took it back to my office and tucked it between my desk and the storage cabinet. If I have to clean out my desk, I&#8217;ll need a good sturdy box.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not saying that&#8217;s going to happen. I just want to be prepared. And I like dramatic gestures, so I&#8217;ve decided that the box will stay where it is until I have to use it . . . or until I&#8217;m sure don&#8217;t need it.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m also making a mental list of the things I&#8217;ll do with all the extra time I do find myself unemployed. (Why should Greg have all the fun?) This is all part of my strategy for turning the whole matter into a no-lose scenario. If I get laid off, I&#8217;ll feel smug about having snagged a box before the rush started. And I&#8217;ll get to sleep late and spend more time blogging (in between job interviews, of course). If I <i>don&#8217;t<\/i> get laid off, well, I keep my job! Either way, I win.<br \/>\nUPDATE: Perhaps I should write down the URL of <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=02\/05\/14\/211217&#038;mode=thread&#038;tid=99\">this Slashdot thread<\/a> on a piece of paper and stick it in the box, just in case. And maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=02\/05\/29\/184204&#038;mode=thread&#038;tid=146\">this one<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a box in the hallway yesterday. IBM uses a lot of paper, so there are often empty boxes around, of the sort that hold ten reams of paper. Usually I take them home; they have handles and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=59\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}