{"id":1798,"date":"2020-10-30T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2020-10-30T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T03:00:19","slug":"five-for-friday-october-30-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-october-30-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday, October 30, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US election is 4 days away. If you haven&#8217;t already voted &#8211; make a plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s some new (to me) stuff this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I didn&#8217;t have a TV until last week. I took a chance on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hisense-usa.com\/televisions\/all-tvs\/65H9G_quantum-4k-premium-uled-hisense-android-smart-tv-2020\">Hisense H9 series<\/a>, and so far, it&#8217;s been a dream.<\/li><li>I&#8217;m currently reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/library\/view\/seeking-sre\/9781491978856\/\">Seeking SRE<\/a>. I like books (such as this one) that gather stories from different people with different perspectives. Not everything is useful, but there&#8217;s plenty here to think about.<\/li><li>As someone who spent a few hours <em>today<\/em> building some Ikea furniture, I was surprised\/not-surprised that their t<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/better-marketing\/ikeas-best-selling-product-is-not-a-piece-of-furniture-bc8c30fcd378\">op selling item isn&#8217;t a piece of furniture<\/a>.<\/li><li>I forgot about the pyramid principle (I never read the book) until I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/models.substack.com\/p\/pyramid-principle\">this article<\/a> recently. It&#8217;s a good tool for our communication toolboxes<\/li><li>And &#8211; here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.medium.com\/your-weekcovid-19-vaccine-update-9e30dd8d785c\">everything that&#8217;s happened on the corona virus vaccine this week<\/a>. I found it highly informative.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US election is 4 days away. If you haven&#8217;t already voted &#8211; make a plan. Here&#8217;s some new (to me) stuff this week. I didn&#8217;t have a TV until last week. I took a chance on a Hisense H9 series, and so far, it&#8217;s been a dream. I&#8217;m currently reading Seeking SRE. I like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}