{"id":1547,"date":"2004-12-24T23:02:13","date_gmt":"2004-12-25T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2004-12-24T23:03:19","modified_gmt":"2004-12-25T07:03:19","slug":"arms-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"arm&#8217;s length"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2004\/12\/small_ideas_for.html\">Tyler Cowen<\/a> (cited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tjic.com\/blog\/\">Travis<\/a>) quotes a NYT article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. participants [at a retreat for autistics] .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. can wear color-coded badges that indicate whether they are willing to be approached for conversation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and remarks: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> I will be very happy if this ever becomes socially acceptable practice for non-autistics .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I had a cubicle to call my own, I would sometimes put up a little sign:<\/p>\n<p align=center>\n<font color=red>CAUTION<\/font><br \/>\nTEMPORARY ACUTE SURLINESS ZONE\n<\/p>\n<p>No one ever gave me grief about it, and I can&#8217;t recall that anyone even asked what it meant; I guess they assumed I was busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Cowen (cited by Travis) quotes a NYT article: .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. participants [at a retreat for autistics] .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. can wear color-coded badges that indicate whether they are willing to be approached for conversation. and remarks: I will be very happy if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1547\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}