{"id":1598,"date":"2010-06-09T21:53:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T03:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2010-06-09T21:53:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T03:53:45","slug":"so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"So long and thanks for all the books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the retirement soir\u00e9e for Neal Fossen today, my long time print rep and friend from Quebecor (later to become Worldcolor).  I&#8217;ve known Neal for at least 13 years now and he is my favorite small &#8216;c&#8217; conservative ever. We had many a lunchtime conversation and I hope to have many more. <\/p>\n<p>As well he is one of my favorite colleagues. He never shovelled me no shit and always was accomodating to our idiosyncratic methodologies. And that&#8217;s saying alot in an industry of commision sales. He&#8217;s still around but the world isn&#8217;t likely to see many like him in the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/l_1244_893_D97E96EA-29FF-40FB-BC9C-B0043D4C38A7.jpeg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/l_1244_893_D97E96EA-29FF-40FB-BC9C-B0043D4C38A7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the retirement soir\u00e9e for Neal Fossen today, my long time print rep and friend from Quebecor (later to become Worldcolor). I&#8217;ve known Neal for at least 13 years now and he is my favorite small &#8216;c&#8217; conservative ever. We had many a lunchtime conversation and I hope to have many more. As well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}