{"id":222,"date":"2020-04-09T14:37:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T18:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/?p=222"},"modified":"2020-04-09T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T18:37:50","slug":"empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/2020\/04\/09\/empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Technical writers are pain relievers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In most cases it&#8217;s not physical pain. It&#8217;s the pain your audience feels when they don&#8217;t know how to complete a task, or when they&#8217;re trying to figure out why the app isn&#8217;t working the way it&#8217;s supposed to. Users just want to get their job done and go home, but they can&#8217;t because the #$%@! software isn&#8217;t working. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good technical writers figure out their audience&#8217;s pain and provide the information needed to relieve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you figure out your audience&#8217;s pain? Talk to your product support teams. They can tell you stories&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technical writers are pain relievers. In most cases it&#8217;s not physical pain. It&#8217;s the pain your audience feels when they don&#8217;t know how to complete a task, or when they&#8217;re trying to figure out why the app isn&#8217;t working the way it&#8217;s supposed to. Users just want to get their job done and go home, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/2020\/04\/09\/empathy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Empathy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-writer","category-writing","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}