{"id":1615,"date":"2006-10-18T20:47:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T01:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2006-10-18T20:50:04","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T01:50:04","slug":"dilbert-and-the-zone-of-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/dilbert-and-the-zone-of-mediocrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilbert and the Zone of Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a proposal all day, but I took a few minutes to read <a href=\" http:\/\/headrush.typepad.com\/\">Kathy Sierra&#8217;s Creating Passionate Users blog<\/a>. Today she&#8217;s writing about how to avoid the Zone of Mediocrity. &#8220;Until or unless you&#8217;re willing to risk passionate hate, you may never feel the love.&#8221; To support her good arguements, she points us to <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbertblog.typepad.com\/the_dilbert_blog\/2006\/10\/knowing_when_to.html\">Dilbert creator Scott Adams&#8217; blog entry &#8220;Knowing When to Quit&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a proposal all day, but I took a few minutes to read Kathy Sierra&#8217;s Creating Passionate Users blog. Today she&#8217;s writing about how to avoid the Zone of Mediocrity. &#8220;Until or unless you&#8217;re willing to risk passionate hate, you may never feel the love.&#8221; To support her good arguements, she points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-information-commons","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}