{"id":862,"date":"2015-03-30T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/?p=862"},"modified":"2015-03-30T10:10:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:10:26","slug":"loving-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/30\/loving-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pixar-it-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"pixar-it\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pixar-it-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pixar-it-624x465.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pixar-it.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Pixar provides a wonderful program for viewing and manipulating images. The name of the program is a contraction of &#8220;image tool.&#8221; It&#8217;s named <strong>it<\/strong>. Seriously. The pronoun.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a certain beauty to this name, because it&#8217;s one of the worst possible names you could give a program. It would be hopeless to try to search for information on this program online. Every sentence involving it comes up has to be carefully parsed to determine if you&#8217;re talking about it. As happened right there. Twice.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, the Abbot and Costello routines write themselves.<\/p>\n<p>A: So the next step it to open it.<br \/>\nC: Done.<br \/>\nA: So you have it open?<br \/>\nC: Yes, it&#8217;s open.<br \/>\nA: Just to be sure, what&#8217;s open?<br \/>\nC: it.<br \/>\nA: it?<br \/>\nC: Yes, it.<br \/>\nA: What&#8217;s open?<br \/>\nC: it!<br \/>\nA: Suppose I work in the cubicle next to you. I want to help you with your rendering.<br \/>\nC: That&#8217;s great, it&#8217;s always nice to have colleagues.<br \/>\nA: So I come over to see what&#8217;s on your screen, and what do I see?<br \/>\nC: it.<br \/>\nA: It&#8217;s what?<br \/>\nC: It&#8217;s it!<br \/>\nA: That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m asking ya!<br \/>\nC: That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m telling ya!<br \/>\netc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pixar provides a wonderful program for viewing and manipulating images. The name of the program is a contraction of &#8220;image tool.&#8221; It&#8217;s named it. Seriously. The pronoun. There&#8217;s a certain beauty to this name, because it&#8217;s one of the worst possible names you could give a program. It would be hopeless to try to search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}