{"id":183,"date":"2004-04-21T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/04\/21\/276cf5ee-61c2-449a-a523-01f05f6db180\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:30:00","slug":"276cf5ee-61c2-449a-a523-01f05f6db180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/276cf5ee-61c2-449a-a523-01f05f6db180\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>News Alert! Administration Full Of Liars!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By now you&#8217;ve heard of Secretary Of State Colin Powell&#8217;s &#8220;Pottery Barn Rule&#8221; regarding Iraq. In Bob Woodward&#8217;s new book, he quotes Powell advising the President &#8220;you break it, you own it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turns out though that Pottery Barn is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2004\/04\/20\/Business\/Rule_that_isn_t_its_r.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">plenty upset<\/a> about the misrepresentation of their return policy. Actually, I&#8217;ve had good luck with Pottery Barn. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/bath90.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>We ordered a couple mirrors from them for the bathroom remodel and one arrived with a little chip. The guy on the phone said &#8220;okay, just throw it away or donate it or something and we&#8217;ll send you a new one.&#8221; That was it. No extra charge, no grief, painless.<\/p>\n<p>So hey! Cut Pottery Barn some slack. This is scandalous!<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonkette.com\" target=\"_blank\">Wonkette<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Alert! Administration Full Of Liars! By now you&#8217;ve heard of Secretary Of State Colin Powell&#8217;s &#8220;Pottery Barn Rule&#8221; regarding Iraq. In Bob Woodward&#8217;s new book, he quotes Powell advising the President &#8220;you break it, you own it.&#8221; Turns out though that Pottery Barn is plenty upset about the misrepresentation of their return policy. Actually, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/276cf5ee-61c2-449a-a523-01f05f6db180\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}