{"id":16,"date":"2009-02-06T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/what-visio-means-to-me\/"},"modified":"2009-02-06T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T20:11:00","slug":"what-visio-means-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/2009\/02\/what-visio-means-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What Visio Means to Me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had an epiphany.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that I was infatuated with Microsoft Visio because I liked drawing pretty pictures.  And while people seemed to like the pictures I drew, I always felt slightly silly because ultimately all I was doing was drawing pretty pictures.<\/p>\n<p>I just finished drawing a multi-server, multi-silo, multi-site application that I knew nothing about before 72 hours ago, from the power cords into the walls to the networks to the logical application flow.  I looked at the document and realized that I didn&#8217;t love Visio because of the pretty pictures, I love it because, when I am able to produce that pretty picture, it means I understand the thing I am modeling 100%, top to bottom.  And that&#8217;s a feeling I don&#8217;t have to feel silly about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had an epiphany. I thought that I was infatuated with Microsoft Visio because I liked drawing pretty pictures. And while people seemed to like the pictures I drew, I always felt slightly silly because ultimately all I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/2009\/02\/what-visio-means-to-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}