{"id":1399,"date":"2013-10-29T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2013-10-29T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:01:29","slug":"hit-any-key-to-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"Hit Any Key To Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/hitanykey\/hitanykey.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/hitanykey\/hitanykey_600w.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those of you of a certain age who worked in corporate or office environments will probably remember a certain piece of &#8220;office folk art&#8221; popular in most offices back during the dark days of MS-DOS: a big cartoon duck with a giant cartoon hammer about to deal a crushing death blow to a computer displaying the ancient MS-DOS post-crash message: &#8220;Hit any key to continue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This memory from my early working days came rushing back to me as I read the news of the ongoing saga of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/n2vxv6r\" target=\"_blank\">FAIL parade<\/a> that is healthcare.gov &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/lt4ca8g\" target=\"_blank\">poor testing,<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/k85jm6k\" target=\"_blank\">history of FAIL<\/a> in the career of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/n6fjvjj\" target=\"_blank\">cronyism<\/a> that figured in the choice of the firm to build the Web site. It&#8217;s comedy gold on a grand scale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 inch <a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/hitanykey\/hitanykey.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">grayscale jpg image,<\/a> 468kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you of a certain age who worked in corporate or office environments will probably remember a certain piece of &#8220;office folk art&#8221; popular in most offices back during the dark days of MS-DOS: a big cartoon duck with a giant cartoon hammer about to deal a crushing death blow to a computer displaying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,158],"tags":[534,180,533],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-obamarama","tag-healthcare-gov","tag-obamacare","tag-sebelius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}