{"id":579,"date":"2009-04-18T18:31:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T09:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/shed\/?p=579"},"modified":"2009-04-18T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T09:01:13","slug":"guiding-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/18\/guiding-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Guiding Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"guiding-principles.png\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/guiding-principles.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/guiding-principles.png\" alt=\"guiding-principles.png\" width=\"658\" height=\"412\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never throw anything out- you&#8217;ll need it one day, sonny jim.<\/li>\n<li>Being a practical and useful person is a worthwhile achievement<\/li>\n<li>Encourage curiosity, wonder and other cheap thrills as the origins of imaginative problem solving.<\/li>\n<li>Useful and everyday things contain their own beauty.<\/li>\n<li>Without a grasp of the principles of mechanical advantage &#8211; the lever, the pulley, the screw, the inclined plane and wedge and the wheel and axle &#8211; we&#8217;re stuffed.<\/li>\n<li>You can never have too many tools.<\/li>\n<li>I said put that down!<\/li>\n<li>A big mess in the shed or the backyard is only a problem for those without a clue.<a title=\"guiding-principles.png\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/guiding-principles.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/guiding-principles.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"guiding-principles.png\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" align=\"top\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/guiding-principles.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"guiding-principles.png\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" align=\"top\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Reticence, mumbling and disorganisation are the signs of a deep and enquiring mind.<\/li>\n<li>Good ideas are precious beyond rubies but if not shared freely are as useless as tits on a bull.<\/li>\n<li>And leave something for the next bloke.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never throw anything out- you&#8217;ll need it one day, sonny jim. Being a practical and useful person is a worthwhile achievement Encourage curiosity, wonder and other cheap thrills as the origins of imaginative problem solving. Useful and everyday things contain their own beauty. Without a grasp of the principles of mechanical advantage &#8211; the lever, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/18\/guiding-principles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guiding Principles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}