{"id":25462,"date":"2023-05-20T18:48:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T23:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25462"},"modified":"2023-05-20T18:48:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T23:48:34","slug":"as-metaphors-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25462","title":{"rendered":"As metaphors go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m working on a software project, I notice that much of the effort consists of finding ways for different parts of the project to communicate with one another. Once I&#8217;ve got <i>this<\/i> thing working, and <i>that<\/i> thing working, I then need to get them to talk to one another.<\/p>\n<p>So much of the time I am actually constructing little translators. It&#8217;s kind of like trying to give people an easy way to cross a world that consists of many tiny islands. You end up building lots and lots of bridges.<\/p>\n<p>I guess there are worse things to spend your time on than building bridges of communication. As metaphors go, this one seems pretty life affirming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m working on a software project, I notice that much of the effort consists of finding ways for different parts of the project to communicate with one another. Once I&#8217;ve got this thing working, and that thing working, I then need to get them to talk to one another. So much of the time &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25462\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;As metaphors go&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25463,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25462\/revisions\/25463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}