{"id":504,"date":"2020-07-20T15:48:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T23:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2020-07-20T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T23:48:34","slug":"check-every-link-in-the-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/20\/check-every-link-in-the-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Check every link in the chain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once we stayed at a guesthouse and after a couple of days there I said to my wife, \u201cToo bad the water tastes funny,\u201d and then she said, \u201cWhat do you mean? It tastes fine.\u201d And then I tasted water from her cup and it did taste fine. It turns out that it was just the set of cups that I had been drinking from that were making the good water taste funny. I\u2019ve had that happen to me at bars with beer sometimes tasting soapy or smelling soapy and having a soapy aftertaste because of the particular glass that it\u2019s served in. Moral of the story: Check all the variables. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Look for all the links, and check them all. And if it seems like the water could taste better, then it probably can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once we stayed at a guesthouse and after a couple of days there I said to my wife, \u201cToo bad the water tastes funny,\u201d and then she said, \u201cWhat do you mean? It tastes fine.\u201d And then I tasted water from her cup and it did taste fine. It turns out that it was just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/20\/check-every-link-in-the-chain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Check every link in the chain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}