{"id":517,"date":"2015-02-25T01:15:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T01:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enginmercan.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2015-02-25T01:15:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T01:15:49","slug":"tao-of-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enginmercan.com\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Tao of Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Master was explaining the nature of Tao to one of his novices.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Tao is embodied in all software &#8212; regardless of how insignificant,&#8221; said the Master.<br \/>\n&#8220;Is the Tao in a hand-held calculator?&#8221; asked the novice.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is,&#8221; came the reply.<br \/>\n&#8220;Is the Tao in a video game?&#8221; asked the novice.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is even in a video game,&#8221; said the Master.<br \/>\n&#8220;Is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer?&#8221; asked the novice.<br \/>\nThe Master coughed and shifted his position slightly. &#8220;The lesson is over for today,&#8221; he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~xela\/tao.html\">http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~xela\/tao.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Master was explaining the nature of Tao to one of his novices. &#8220;The Tao is embodied in all software &#8212; regardless of how insignificant,&#8221; said the Master. &#8220;Is the Tao in a hand-held calculator?&#8221; asked the novice. &#8220;It is,&#8221; came the reply. &#8220;Is the Tao in a video game?&#8221; asked the novice. &#8220;It is [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enginmercan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enginmercan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enginmercan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enginmercan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enginmercan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enginmercan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/enginmercan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enginmercan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enginmercan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enginmercan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}