{"id":14,"date":"2019-01-07T19:41:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T00:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/?p=14"},"modified":"2019-09-11T07:43:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T11:43:46","slug":"peters-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/2019\/01\/07\/peters-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter&#8217;s Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-background has-small-font-size has-light-gray-background-color wp-block-paragraph\">My daughter found a poster with these on it&#8230;  There are a couple that really hit home, so I copied the whole thing here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><b>\nThe Creed of the Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive.\n<\/b><\/center>\n<ul>\n<li>If anything can go wrong, Fix It! <i>To hell with Murphy!<\/i><\/li>\n<li>When given a choice &#8211; Take both!<\/li>\n<li>Multiple projects lead to multiple successes.<\/li>\n<li>Start at the top, then work your way up.<\/li>\n<li>Do it by the book&#8230; but be the author!<\/li>\n<li>When forced to compromise, ask for more.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t beat them, join them.  Then beat them.<\/li>\n<li>If it&#8217;s worth doing, it&#8217;s got to be done right now.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t win. Change the rules.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t change the rules. Ignore them.<\/li>\n<li>Perfection is not optional.<\/li>\n<li>When faced without a challenge, make one.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;No&#8221; simply means begin again one level higher.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t walk when you can run.<\/li>\n<li>Bureaucracy is a challenge to be conquered with a righteous attitude, a tolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary.<\/li>\n<li>When in doubt: THINK!<\/li>\n<li>Patience is a virtue, but persistence to the point of success is a blessing.<\/li>\n<li>The squeaky wheel gets replaced.<\/li>\n<li>The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter found a poster with these on it&#8230; There are a couple that really hit home, so I copied the whole thing here. The Creed of the Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive. If anything can go wrong, Fix It! To hell with Murphy! When given a choice &#8211; Take both! Multiple projects lead to multiple successes. &#8230; <a title=\"Peter&#8217;s Laws\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/2019\/01\/07\/peters-laws\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Peter&#8217;s Laws\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borrowed-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}