{"id":13053,"date":"2020-02-14T17:51:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T17:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13053"},"modified":"2020-02-14T17:51:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T17:51:45","slug":"blogathon-14-20-vd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13053","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 14\/20: VD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is one of those very special days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it wasn&#8217;t for days like this the entire greeting card and florist industry would collapse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, it is Valentine&#8217;s Day (or VD for short).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Customer Service Centre (the building that the many, many teams of customer support operators work), messages of affection were delivered by one of the staff dressed like cupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some messages were signed, some were anonymous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awwww&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They used to do that at school too; a whole internal post system suddenly popped up to convey messages between pupils who, ordinarily, would avoid speaking to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or so I liked to think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pauses for thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In these days of social media, I&#8217;m a bit surprised at the Cupid service in the CSC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would have thought most people would give someone a poke on FB or somesuch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is one of those very special days. If it wasn&#8217;t for days like this the entire greeting card and florist industry would collapse Yes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}