{"id":862,"date":"2008-02-01T04:04:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T12:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/a-simple-pieces-of-code-that-mirrors-life\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T04:07:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T12:07:21","slug":"a-simple-pieces-of-code-that-mirrors-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/a-simple-pieces-of-code-that-mirrors-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Pieces of Code That Mirrors Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n$someChineseClients = array(&#8216;idiots&#8217;, &#8216;cheap&#8217;, &#8216;lazy&#8217;, &#8216;indecisive&#8217;, &#8216;noTaste&#8217;, &#8216;slowPay&#8217;);<\/p>\n<p>if($client == $someChineseClients) {<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; if($trouble > $budgetOfProject) {<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; echo &#8216;Run away from the project like hell!&#8217;;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; }<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; else {<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; echo &#8216;I will tolerate the pain. When do we start?&#8217;;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; }<br \/>\n}<br \/>\nelse {<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; echo &#8216;Put a down payment and I am game.&#8217;;<br \/>\n}\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, joys of life as a freelance contractor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$someChineseClients = array(&#8216;idiots&#8217;, &#8216;cheap&#8217;, &#8216;lazy&#8217;, &#8216;indecisive&#8217;, &#8216;noTaste&#8217;, &#8216;slowPay&#8217;); if($client == $someChineseClients) { &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; if($trouble > $budgetOfProject) { &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; echo &#8216;Run away from the project like hell!&#8217;; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; } &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; else { &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; echo &#8216;I will tolerate the pain. When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/a-simple-pieces-of-code-that-mirrors-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Simple Pieces of Code That Mirrors Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-dU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}