{"id":1531,"date":"2009-07-13T06:30:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T10:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/13\/throwing-out-history-with-the-bathwater\/"},"modified":"2009-07-13T06:31:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T10:31:03","slug":"throwing-out-history-with-the-bathwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/13\/throwing-out-history-with-the-bathwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing out history with the bathwater."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was doing some belated spring cleaning and finally decided to turn towards the old bookshelf.  You know the one with old college text books and programming manuals and books that time forgot?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Programming Windows 3.1 Third Edition<\/em> Charles Petzold<\/li>\n<li><em>Advanced Windows Third Edition<\/em> Jeffrey Richter<\/li>\n<li><em>Microsoft Foundation Class Bible 4<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I started to keep these three books for prosperity or something.  The only reason I have been hanging on to them was for sentimental value.  I spent a lot of time with these books early in my career, but it is time to move on to other adventures.<\/p>\n<p>Shed no tears of sorrow; all these books served me well.  Now off they go to the local Goodwill for someone else to enjoy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was doing some belated spring cleaning and finally decided to turn towards the old bookshelf. You know the one with old college text books and programming manuals and books that time forgot? Programming Windows 3.1 Third Edition Charles Petzold Advanced Windows Third Edition Jeffrey Richter Microsoft Foundation Class Bible 4 I started to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/13\/throwing-out-history-with-the-bathwater\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Throwing out history with the bathwater.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}