{"id":145,"date":"2004-06-13T08:03:39","date_gmt":"2004-06-13T13:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=145"},"modified":"2004-06-13T08:03:39","modified_gmt":"2004-06-13T13:03:39","slug":"optimist-pessimist-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Optimist, Pessimist, Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent poll, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeproject.com\" target=\"_blank\">Code Project<\/a> asked its readers the following:<br \/>\n<b>Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist?<\/b><br \/>\nI&#8217;m an optimist (everything will work out)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a realist (things break, the world turns)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a pessimist (it&#8217;ll never work properly)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a panic merchant (it&#8217;ll break and catch on fire)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m an engineer (It can only break if the design was poor)<br \/>\nContinue to see how 1,582 of your peers and colleagues voted.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\n<TABLE><br \/>\n<TR><TD>I&#8217;m an optimist (everything will work out)<\/TD><TD>  228<\/TD><TD>  <b>14.4%<\/b><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><TD>I&#8217;m a realist (things break, the world turns)<\/TD><TD>  846<\/TD><TD>  <b>53.5%<\/b><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><TD>I&#8217;m a pessimist (it&#8217;ll never work properly)<\/TD><TD>  69<\/TD><TD>  <b>4.4%<\/b><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><TD>I&#8217;m a panic merchant<br \/>\n(it&#8217;ll break and catch on fire)<\/TD><TD>  44<\/TD><TD>  <b>2.8%<\/b><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><TD>I&#8217;m an engineer<br \/>\n(It can only break if the design was poor)<\/TD><TD>  395<\/TD><TD>  <b>25.0%<\/b><\/TD><\/TR><\/TABLE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent poll, Code Project asked its readers the following: Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist? I&#8217;m an optimist (everything will work out) I&#8217;m a realist (things break, the world turns) I&#8217;m a pessimist (it&#8217;ll never work properly) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=145\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}