{"id":130,"date":"2008-09-16T20:01:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T01:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/were-in-this-together\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T20:02:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T01:02:05","slug":"were-in-this-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/were-in-this-together\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re In This Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving work late last Friday, I was impressed with the Bosch brand alarm-panel by the door.  I botched entering the access-code, trying to arm the system, and the tiny LCD said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Invalid Code<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s try again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Security systems are designed to keep people out, have Spartan interfaces out of necessity, and consequently are often somewhat hostile to use. It&#8217;s a small thing, but that phrasing &#8220;<em>let&#8217;s<\/em> try again&#8221; made me smile, and that made a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving work late last Friday, I was impressed with the Bosch brand alarm-panel by the door. I botched entering the access-code, trying to arm the system, and the tiny LCD said, Invalid Code Let&#8217;s try again. Security systems are designed to keep people out, have Spartan interfaces out of necessity, and consequently are often somewhat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,42],"tags":[176,175],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-security","tag-alarm-systems","tag-good-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}