{"id":7891,"date":"2011-02-11T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7891"},"modified":"2011-02-11T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T08:00:44","slug":"no-good-deed-goes-unpunished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7891","title":{"rendered":"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2011\/02\/03\/964781\/citizen-activist-grates-on-state.html\">Citizen activist grates on state over traffic signals<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cox has not been accused of claiming that he is an engineer. But Lacy says he filed the complaint because the report &#8220;appears to be engineering-level work&#8221; by someone who is not licensed as a professional engineer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems rather silly, and I suspect it&#8217;s just payback.  I can tell you when some piece of work is done by a professional engineer: it has a stamp on the document, and it&#8217;s signed.  I am at a loss as to why it would take &#8220;three or four months&#8221; to figure this out.  Because if simply <em>using<\/em> engineering equations is illegal without professional certification (as if you need an engineering safety course to handle them correctly), then anyone training to be a professional engineer is breaking the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen activist grates on state over traffic signals Cox has not been accused of claiming that he is an engineer. But Lacy says he filed the complaint because the report &#8220;appears to be engineering-level work&#8221; by someone who is not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7891\">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":[34,40,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-not-really-science-at-all","category-politics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891","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=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}