{"id":2386,"date":"2009-05-06T04:03:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T09:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2009-05-06T04:03:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T09:03:37","slug":"who-watches-the-watch-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2386","title":{"rendered":"Who Watches the Watch, Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphpaper.com\/2009\/05-02_who_watches_the_watchman\">Who Watches the Watchman?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let\u2019s say you own a big building full of valuable stuff. How do you make sure that the night watchman patrolling your factory floor or museum galleries after closing time actually makes his rounds? How do you know he\u2019s inspecting every hallway, floor, and stairwell in the facility? How do you know he (or she) is not just spending every night sleeping at his desk?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a technology designer, you might suggest using surveillance cameras or even GPS to track his location each night, right? But let\u2019s make this interesting. Let\u2019s go a century back in time to, say, around 1900. What could you possibly do in 1900 to be absolutely sure a night watchman was making his full patrol?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Watches the Watchman? Let\u2019s say you own a big building full of valuable stuff. How do you make sure that the night watchman patrolling your factory floor or museum galleries after closing time actually makes his rounds? How do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2386\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,53,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-tech","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}