{"id":472,"date":"2006-09-22T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/09\/22\/1aac8a30-6dee-494c-9a2a-ee47c2fd3769\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:28:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:28:35","slug":"1aac8a30-6dee-494c-9a2a-ee47c2fd3769","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/1aac8a30-6dee-494c-9a2a-ee47c2fd3769\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>Genius! &#8211; Abbot &#038; Costello Edition<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Full steam ahead then for our ongoing series called <b>Genius!<\/b>&trade;<\/p>\n<p><i>Here&#8217;s what I put to our software vendor in a nutshell. The original email question was &#8220;can you give us a quote on some new software?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He replied that somebody else already pays for other different software, that we already have. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s great, but what does the new software cost?&#8221; I shot back. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not part of the software you already have. Somebody else pays for that,&#8221; he replied. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then how do we get the software I&#8217;m asking you about?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh! That&#8217;s usually free.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And that is, dear readers, Exhibit B in why I&#8217;m going insane. More tomorrow, in the next installment of <b>Genius!<\/b>&trade;<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genius! &#8211; Abbot &#038; Costello Edition Friends, Full steam ahead then for our ongoing series called Genius!&trade; Here&#8217;s what I put to our software vendor in a nutshell. The original email question was &#8220;can you give us a quote on some new software?&#8221; He replied that somebody else already pays for other different software, that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/1aac8a30-6dee-494c-9a2a-ee47c2fd3769\/\" 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-472","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\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}