{"id":5277,"date":"2002-06-28T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-28T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T00:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T00:28:05","slug":"5277-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/5277-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Fear<\/b><\/p>\n<p>She: &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry about the usability test, tomorrow.  You&#8217;ll do fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;It&#8217;ll turn into something dark and ugly, I&#8217;m sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She: &#8220;What&#8217;s the worst that could happen?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;The test could be taken over by goths. You know how they are. The lab would have low lighting and blackened windows, a lone PC with a black desktop would hover on the alter-like table. The participants would choke on the hazy film of smoke while the disembodied voice of Death told them to sit and read the script.  Oh, they&#8217;d try, but who could concentrate with the driving, pumping rhythm of Ministry competing for control of sanity?  The results of the test would end up hopelessly skewed because they&#8217;d be riveted with fear from the unidentified blood stains on the floor.  Disaster. Chaos. I&#8217;d have to start over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She: &#8220;So, find enough people for the study?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;I&#8217;m still looking for warm bodies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear She: &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry about the usability test, tomorrow. You&#8217;ll do fine.&#8221; Me: &#8220;It&#8217;ll turn into something dark and ugly, I&#8217;m sure.&#8221; She: &#8220;What&#8217;s the worst that could happen?&#8221; Me: &#8220;The test could be taken over by goths. You know how they are. The lab would have low lighting and blackened windows, a lone PC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6311,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions\/6311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}