{"id":2906,"date":"2019-06-10T01:26:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T06:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2019-05-25T07:32:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T12:32:27","slug":"the-beauty-of-the-add-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/06\/the-beauty-of-the-add-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of the &#8220;Add On&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Adding to something can be difficult. The result is often less beautiful, less structurally pure, less this and that. Behold, however, the beauty of the &#8220;add on.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You see them in houses. At least we used to see them. We still do in some rural areas where construction isn\u2019t regulated too much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A family grew (babies). Income grew. They added a bedroom. Then they added another. And then another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A restaurant had more business. They added a dining room onto the left side of the building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Software use grew. We added a few new features that the new users wanted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ugly? Maybe. Not fitting perfectly with the original architecture? Probably.<br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beautiful? Absolutely. Someone succeeded. Someone grew. Someone added on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Adding to something can be difficult. The result is often less beautiful, less structurally pure, less this and that. Behold, however, the beauty of the &#8220;add on.&#8221; You see them in houses. At least we used to see them. We still do in some rural areas where construction isn\u2019t regulated too much. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,259,363,85],"tags":[143,260,364,202],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-failure","category-growth","category-success","tag-change","tag-failure","tag-growth","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","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=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}