{"id":782,"date":"2012-03-07T09:56:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T07:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=782"},"modified":"2012-03-07T09:56:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T07:56:36","slug":"lets-take-a-step-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2012\/03\/lets-take-a-step-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Lets take a step back&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just could not resist posting this. Was reading a article on &#8216;<a title=\"Stardock offers substitute Start menu for Windows 8\" href=\"http:\/\/techreport.com\/discussions.x\/22591\" target=\"_blank\">TechReport.com<\/a>&#8216; where one of the comments on the article goes like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>What&#8217;s the deal with ruining interfaces everywhere? It&#8217;s almost like everyone is competing, who will make the worst one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Ribbon, Linux Unity, now Windows 8&#8230; Why?!<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Madman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is so ironic on so many levels&#8230; But it&#8217;s so true. Lately a lot of things feel like they are moving in the wrong direction (don&#8217;t even start on politics&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>The only good &#8216;step backwards&#8217; is the one where you\u00a0retreat\u00a0a few steps to look at this bigger picture &#8211; just to realize it might actually look worse! haha (in a chokingly desperate voice&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just could not resist posting this. Was reading a article on &#8216;TechReport.com&#8216; where one of the comments on the article goes like this: &#8220;What&#8217;s the deal with ruining interfaces everywhere? It&#8217;s almost like everyone is competing, who will make the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2012\/03\/lets-take-a-step-back\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[29,81,84],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-problem","tag-stuff","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}