{"id":471,"date":"2005-04-19T23:49:32","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T06:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2005-04-20T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T14:48:07","slug":"my-old-boss-was-the-spawn-of-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"My old boss was the spawn of Satan."},"content":{"rendered":"

I think a lot of CEOs are like that, but this guy had no morals at all. He started out as a kind of a dot-commer and ended up as a right-wing junk mailer. He had no focus and kept changing the company direction at a whim. Imagine my surprise when I got this weird “Please update your contact information on plaxo.com for <spawn of Satan>.” I guess he sent it out to everyone who he’d ever emailed, including my old co-worker’s mom. Weird.<\/p>\n

Hey, so I got another weird author interaction. I got email from Jason Headley about his book Small Town Odds<\/i>. So far I’ve only read a half-dozen pages and it looks pretty good. I suppose this is like speed dating and if anyone can talk to me for five minutes, a writer can keep my interest for 20 pages or so. We’ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think a lot of CEOs are like that, but this guy had no morals at all. He started out as a kind of a dot-commer and ended up as a right-wing junk mailer. He had no focus and kept changing the company direction at a whim. Imagine my surprise when I got this weird “Please update your contact information on plaxo.com for <spawn of Satan>.” I guess he sent it out to everyone who he’d ever emailed, including my old co-worker’s mom. Weird. Hey, so I got another weird author interaction. I got email from Jason Headley about his book Small Town Odds. So far I’ve only read a … Continue reading My old boss was the spawn of Satan.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}