{"id":866,"date":"2020-07-07T06:36:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T10:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/?p=866"},"modified":"2020-07-07T06:36:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T10:36:19","slug":"earned-value-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"Earned Value Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/country_road.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-868\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/country_road-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/country_road-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/country_road-773x1024.jpg 773w, https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/country_road-768x1017.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/country_road.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a>Only some of you will get why I titled it &#8220;Earned Value Joke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>A fellow was walking along a country road when he came upon a farmer working in his field. The man called out to the farmer &#8220;How long will it take me to get to the next town?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The farmer didn&#8217;t answer. The guy waited a bit and then started walking again. After the man had gone about a hundred yards, the farmer yelled out &#8220;About 20 minutes.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Thank you. But why didn&#8217;t you tell me that when I asked you?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Didn&#8217;t know how fast you could walk.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earned-value"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}