{"id":82,"date":"2014-08-06T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/2014\/08\/06\/an-interesting-read-about-craftsmanship\/"},"modified":"2014-08-06T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T12:18:00","slug":"an-interesting-read-about-craftsmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/an-interesting-read-about-craftsmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting read about craftsmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back, sort of.<\/p>\n<p>The last few months have been crazy with moving and starting a new job in the southern United States but I hope I can start picking up where I left off.<\/p>\n<p>First up, an <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.spectator.co.uk\/article\/27th-november-1959\/52\/roundabout\">interesting read<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxsartoria.com\/\">voxsartoria<\/a> was kind enough to bring to my attention.  I am happy and envious in equal parts that someone was able to express so well something that I have been struggling to convey for years.  In short,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Craft means skill; and handcraft for its own sake is as much an enemy of good craftsmanship as bad mass-production. It would be a hard thing if human beings, having taught robots to speak like Shakespeare, could only prove their voices human by learning to stutter.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.spectator.co.uk\/article\/27th-november-1959\/52\/roundabout\">Spectator Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CORRECTION<\/p>\n<p>Though it was voxsartoria who brought it to my attention, all credit for unearthing the article must go to RJMan.  I stand corrected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back, sort of. The last few months have been crazy with moving and starting a new job in the southern United States but I<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/an-interesting-read-about-craftsmanship\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craftsmanship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}