{"id":416,"date":"2004-07-20T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=419"},"modified":"2004-07-20T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T16:56:00","slug":"gelernter-on-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2004\/07\/gelernter-on-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Gelernter on Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgeesmusings.net\/2004\/07\/20.html#a4299\">Via Jim McGee<\/a>,\na <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science\/tq\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2724348\">quote<\/a>\nfrom an idol of mine,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.yale.edu\/people\/faculty\/gelernter.html\">David Gelernter<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nBeauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Amen.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Jim McGee, a quote from an idol of mine, David Gelernter; Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity. Amen.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}