{"id":2420,"date":"2017-04-20T09:21:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T14:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2017-04-08T09:26:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T14:26:56","slug":"the-steam-roller-whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2017\/04\/the-steam-roller-whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"The Steam Roller\u2014What&#8217;s in a Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>We still refer to the steam roller even though no one has one such a machine in over a hundred years. So what? Maybe something important.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We once used <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steamroller\">steam rollers <\/a>to flatten things. They had a steam engine for power. They weighed a lot. They were effective.<\/p>\n<p>We quit using steam engines on such machines over a hundred years ago, but we still call them steam rollers. Who cares? Cute name. No harm done.<\/p>\n<p>It matters what names we use for some things.\u00a0 It matters when we call hour-long meetings &#8220;stand up&#8221; meetings. It matters when we &#8220;sprint&#8221; all day long.<\/p>\n<p>Somethings to consider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips We still refer to the steam roller even though no one has one such a machine in over a hundred years. So what? Maybe something important. We once used steam rollers to flatten things. They had a steam engine for power. They weighed a lot. They were effective. We quit using steam [&hellip;]<\/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":[154],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}