{"id":2830,"date":"2007-08-23T15:33:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T10:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200708\/firm-masterly-inactivity-expected\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T15:33:36","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T10:03:36","slug":"firm-masterly-inactivity-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200708\/firm-masterly-inactivity-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Firm Masterly Inactivity Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In  &#8220;Yes Minister&#8221; (or &#8220;Yes Prime Minister&#8221;) there is this priceless sequence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hacker: I have been a minister (or Prime Minster) for a week now.<br \/>\nHumphrey Appleby: And you&#8217;ve been a very successful minister, if I may say so.<br \/>\nHacker: How do we ensure that this run of success continues?<br \/>\nAppleby: May I suggest masterly inactivity?<br \/>\nHacker: But a minister ought to be firm.<br \/>\nAppleby: How about <em>firm <\/em> masterly inactivity? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am off on a vacation and will return on September 4. Expect masterly inactivity on this blog till then. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Yes Minister&#8221; (or &#8220;Yes Prime Minister&#8221;) there is this priceless sequence: Hacker: I have been a minister (or Prime Minster) for a week now. Humphrey Appleby: And you&#8217;ve been a very successful minister, if I may say so. Hacker: How do we ensure that this run of success continues? Appleby: May I suggest masterly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}