{"id":6342,"date":"2010-09-03T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=6342"},"modified":"2014-08-07T10:56:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:56:20","slug":"proficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/proficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Proficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6343\" title=\"Proficiency\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/proficiency.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>If Joe claims to be a good carpenter, then wouldn&#8217;t you assume that he would be proficient with more than just a box-end wrench?<\/strong> Come on, Joe. Who are you fooling? We all know that a carpenter is handy with a number of tools, not just the wrench. Saws. Hammers. Drills. I mean, really.<\/p>\n<p>I know you&#8217;re really proud of that shelf unit you built, but the cuts look&#8230; well&#8230; like you used a wrench to make them. If you want anyone to believe you&#8217;re a carpenter then your work better be more representative of what a carpenter does.<\/p>\n<p>A proficient carpenter uses the right tool for the job. Until you add some other tools to your box and learn how to use them (and use them well), don&#8217;t call yourself a carpenter. I&#8217;m sorry, but nobody will jump to hire a carpenter that insists on doing <em>everything<\/em> with a wrench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Joe claims to be a good carpenter, then wouldn&#8217;t you assume that he would be proficient with more than just a box-end wrench? Come on, Joe. Who are you fooling? We all know that a carpenter is handy with a number of tools, not just the wrench. Saws. Hammers. Drills. I mean, really. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-1Ei","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}