{"id":61897,"date":"2025-10-06T20:09:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61897"},"modified":"2025-10-06T20:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:09:29","slug":"be-careful-of-chestertons-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61897","title":{"rendered":"Be Careful Of Chesterton&#8217;s Fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Chestertons_-Fence.jpg\" alt=\"Chesterton's Fence\" width=\"682\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Chestertons_-Fence.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Chestertons_-Fence-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Chestertons_-Fence-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Chestertons_-Fence-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having had to look at, understand and modify software code written by other people, the wisdom of this story instantly struck me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/19r2CYyJLd\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/19r2CYyJLd\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having had to look at, understand and modify software code written by other people, the wisdom of this story instantly struck me. https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/19r2CYyJLd\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61899,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61897\/revisions\/61899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}