{"id":166,"date":"2010-03-24T20:54:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/?p=166"},"modified":"2013-02-09T22:49:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T22:49:32","slug":"the-new-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/2010\/03\/24\/the-new-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the right of the previous generation to claim that the world is going to hell in a hand-cart. And the current generation, to claim that we are heading for the New Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I had the dubious pleasure of watching an important project stumble and fall, due to poor planning, dubious execution and an outright denial of any kind of critical examination of the &#8216;facts&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing out the obvious faults results in accusations of &#8216;negativity&#8217;.<br \/>\nThe unworkable was surely possible by the expression of a winning smile.<br \/>\nFurther argument was deemed &#8216;un-professional&#8217;.<br \/>\nStaring failure in the face was described as a &#8216;learning experience&#8217; though nothing was learned at all.<br \/>\nThe actuality was a shambles, but the whole sorry mess was deified by the belief that &#8216;the concept was good&#8217;, although it was reluctantly admitted that &#8216;some of the design decisions were unfortunate&#8217;.<br \/>\nNone were guilty because none felt the fault was theirs, and pointing fingers might end up pointing at them.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the New Jerusalem, then it might be well to say the words that passed the lips of many a Jew for over a thousand years &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Next year, in Jerusalem &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you cannot see the wrong, and you cannot feel the right, then the New Jerusalem will be a thousand years away.<br \/>\n     Or further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the right of the previous generation to claim that the world is going to hell in a hand-cart. And the current generation, to claim that we are heading for the New Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I had the dubious pleasure of watching an important project stumble and fall, due to poor planning, dubious execution and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-having-a-say","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}