{"id":2182,"date":"2015-12-24T16:50:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T16:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/24\/2015-12-24-a-very-merry-christmastime-html\/"},"modified":"2015-12-24T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T16:50:28","slug":"2015-12-24-a-very-merry-christmastime-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/2015-12-24-a-very-merry-christmastime-html\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Merry Christmastime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/skating.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/skating.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A lovely centered picture of a skater.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to sugar-coat it; this year has not been great. Business has been slow and some promising opportunities have fizzled or flaked. Despite that, I&#8217;ve had the good fortune to meet new people and branch out a bit.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;ve learned anything this year, it&#8217;s that starting and maintaining a new business is harder than I thought. The work itself isn&#8217;t the tough part [<i>maybe you should take a moment out of this holiday message that seems to have veered wildly off course and tell the people what it is you do. &#8211; ed<\/i> Not now, I&#8217;m on a roll.]. Fixing computers, installing networks, and building websites are the jobs I&#8217;m landing most often which is fine and not terribly difficult. The problem is marketing myself. I can easily develop slick marketing plans for other people, but I&#8217;ve always had a issue with selling myself. If I overcome that, I&#8217;d be in much better shape.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s my wish for the new year&mdash;to get some more business. My wish for you is that you enjoy a healthy and happy 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Totally doable.<\/p>\n<p>Your best pal in the whole wide world,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, I&#8217;m not going to sugar-coat it; this year has not been great. Business has been slow and some promising opportunities have fizzled or flaked. Despite that, I&#8217;ve had the good fortune to meet new people and branch out a bit. If I&#8217;ve learned anything this year, it&#8217;s that starting and maintaining a new business &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/2015-12-24-a-very-merry-christmastime-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Very Merry Christmastime&#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":[46,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-this-crappy-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","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=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}