{"id":827,"date":"2004-02-12T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T16:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2004\/02\/12\/borland\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T05:30:11","slug":"borland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2004\/02\/12\/borland\/","title":{"rendered":"Borland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vertical scalability!&#8221;  they said, enthusiastically.  They&#8217;re always very enthusiastic.<\/p>\n<p>Borland understands their desire to save floorspace, but he&#8217;s pretty sure stacking cubes like interlocking Lego isn&#8217;t the way.  He doesn&#8217;t envy Stoneberg, who now needs a stepladder to reach his desk.  But he also wishes Stoneberg&#8217;s crotch weren&#8217;t right at eye level.<\/p>\n<p>That crotch is being adjusted vigorously right now; Borland looks away quickly, then jerks back as Stoneberg&#8217;s chair rolls over a crucial report.  January&#8217;s shredded.<\/p>\n<p>Borland grips the pieces tightly, resisting the urge to wad them down Stoneberg&#8217;s throat.  Soon, he thinks, calming himself.  Soon, Accounts Receivable will pay.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vertical scalability!&#8221; they said, enthusiastically. They&#8217;re always very enthusiastic. Borland understands their desire to save floorspace, but he&#8217;s pretty sure stacking cubes like interlocking Lego isn&#8217;t the way. He doesn&#8217;t envy Stoneberg, who now needs a stepladder to reach his desk. But he also wishes Stoneberg&#8217;s crotch weren&#8217;t right at eye level. That crotch is [&hellip;]<\/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":[513,514],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-borland","tag-stoneberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}