{"id":2160,"date":"2015-12-10T11:21:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2015-12-10T11:31:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:31:48","slug":"aphorisms-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=2160","title":{"rendered":"Aphorisms: Planning to fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Failure to plan is sometimes bad<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to plan every moment of your life. I don&#8217;t map out every trip to the store. Sometimes it is fun to wander.<\/p>\n<p>The general sentiment of the standard version of this aphorism is good, but the execution chooses cleverness over correctness, and does not even have the advantage of being shorter. It just comes across as preachy and superior; people telling you that you were &#8220;planning to fail&#8221; usually really mean &#8220;I told you so,&#8221; or occasionally &#8220;don&#8217;t blame me when it all goes wrong,&#8221; both more annoying than helpful. My updated version is more helpful and less annoying.<\/p>\n<h3>Obsolete saying:<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Failure to plan is planning to fail<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failure to plan is sometimes bad You don&#8217;t have to plan every moment of your life. I don&#8217;t map out every trip to the store. Sometimes it is fun to wander. The general sentiment of the standard version of this aphorism is good, but the execution chooses cleverness over correctness, and does not even have [&hellip;]<\/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":[288],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-aphorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}