{"id":1297,"date":"2013-09-02T07:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T14:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2013-08-19T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T20:58:53","slug":"things-i-learned-today-the-origins-of-the-tree-swing-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/02\/things-i-learned-today-the-origins-of-the-tree-swing-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"things I learned today: the origins of the tree swing cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;ve seen the tree swing cartoon a million times. \u00a0It&#8217;s a great cartoon that illustrates the difference between what the user wants and how it&#8217;s interpreted by various groups in engineering. \u00a0I&#8217;d never seen it attributed to anyone, and as I learned today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessballs.com\/treeswing.htm\">its origins have now been lost<\/a>. \u00a0There&#8217;s lots of variations of it, too. \u00a0That article is an interesting one about the history and variations that the author has been able to track down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;ve seen the tree swing cartoon a million times. \u00a0It&#8217;s a great cartoon that illustrates the difference between what the user wants and how it&#8217;s interpreted by various groups in engineering. \u00a0I&#8217;d never seen it attributed to anyone, and as I learned today, its origins have now been lost. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/02\/things-i-learned-today-the-origins-of-the-tree-swing-cartoon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">things I learned today: the origins of the tree swing cartoon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}