{"id":89008,"date":"2024-08-31T13:16:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T18:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=89008"},"modified":"2024-08-31T13:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T18:16:38","slug":"chestertons-fence-is-the-principle-that-reforms-should-not-be-made-until-the-reasoning-behind-the-existing-state-of-affairs-is-understood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=89008","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Chesterton&#8217;s fence&#8221; is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_fence\">Link<\/a>. Dates to early 20th century. Software developers understand this well but I&#8217;d not seen the term used before seeing it in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link. Dates to early 20th century. Software developers understand this well but I&#8217;d not seen the term used before seeing it in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-89008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-pinboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89009,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89008\/revisions\/89009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}