{"id":447,"date":"2003-03-11T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-11T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/11\/"},"modified":"2003-03-11T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-11T22:50:00","slug":"447","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/11\/447\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><image src=\"blackcat3.jpg\" alt=\"Hiss!\" border=0 height=120 width=71>Superstitions&#8230; can&#8217;t live with &#8217;em, well, that&#8217;s about it. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a fairly spirited discussion here at work this week &#8211; our order entry system is about to hit order number 666000, and the question came up whether it was worth bumping the number up to 667000 to avoid reading back a number that began &#8216;six-six-six.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to say that we decided to ignore it, but I was actually one of the people who argued for bumping up the numbers, because in a world where buildings and airplanes skip the 13th floor and the 13th row of seats, why risk a one-in-a-thousand chance of offending someone a thousand times? Hmm&#8230; I wonder if they give a discount for 14th row seats for people who can count?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superstitions&#8230; can&#8217;t live with &#8217;em, well, that&#8217;s about it. We&#8217;ve had a fairly spirited discussion here at work this week &#8211; our order entry system is about to hit order number 666000, and the question came up whether it was worth bumping the number up to 667000 to avoid reading back a number that began &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/11\/447\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}