{"id":387,"date":"2010-04-21T14:19:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=387"},"modified":"2010-04-21T14:19:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:19:29","slug":"cube-farm-pioneer-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Cube Farm Pioneer Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20100421\/NEWS06\/100421051\" target=\"_blank\">Father of the early cubicle dies at 85<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Glenn M. Walters, a former Herman Miller Inc. executive who was key in the production and marketing of office workspaces that became commonly known as cubicles, has died. He was 85.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, the man who turned humans into hamsters has passed away.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Walters joined Zeeland-based Herman Miller in 1955 as a field salesman. In 1967, he led a task force that finished development and handled marketing for the Action Office system, which was introduced in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>The system, with its movable walls, was a departure from the typical fixed office desks of the time and helped make cubicles commonplace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Later in 1968, the first covert workplace operations were conducted in the field of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=crop%20dusting&amp;defid=231802\" target=\"_blank\">crop dusting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father of the early cubicle dies at 85 Glenn M. Walters, a former Herman Miller Inc. executive who was key in the production and marketing of office workspaces that became commonly known as cubicles, has died. He was 85. That&#8217;s right, the man who turned humans into hamsters has passed away. Walters joined Zeeland-based Herman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[165,164],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-noise","tag-crop-dusting","tag-cubicle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}