{"id":2726,"date":"2018-08-30T01:25:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T06:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2018-08-18T08:33:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:33:43","slug":"thank-you-for-pointing-out-my-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2018\/08\/thank-you-for-pointing-out-my-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You for Pointing Out My Mistake(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is such a good favor when someone shows me one of my mistakes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I recently taught a class where the group walked through a series of instructions I had written. A stroke of brilliance\u2014I rarely claim that, but in this case I do\u2014came to me. I had a half dozen one-dollar bills with me. I started a quick bug-hunting program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you find an error in what I wrote, I will give you a dollar.&#8221; The group found five or six over a two-day period.<\/p>\n<p>It would have taken me many days to find those errors. I claim that as several persons and myself had reviewed the material and found all the errors prior to the class (boy, were we wrong).<\/p>\n<p>I am not always happy when someone shows me one of my mistakes. There, I confessed.<\/p>\n<p>I should be happy when someone shows me one of my mistakes. I should strive to run these bug-hunting exercises more often. A few dollar bills is an amazingly cheap way to improve my products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips It is such a good favor when someone shows me one of my mistakes. I recently taught a class where the group walked through a series of instructions I had written. A stroke of brilliance\u2014I rarely claim that, but in this case I do\u2014came to me. I had a half dozen one-dollar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329,70,259],"tags":[330,190,260],"class_list":["post-2726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-error","category-excuses","category-failure","tag-error","tag-excuses","tag-failure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726","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=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2728,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}