{"id":838,"date":"2008-09-26T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/26\/2008-9-26-financial-failure-photo-fun-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:24","slug":"2008-9-26-financial-failure-photo-fun-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/2008-9-26-financial-failure-photo-fun-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Failure Photo Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Pals,<\/p>\n<p>Considering that it&#8217;s the largest bank failure in United States history, Washington Mutual and their new masters at JP Morgan Chase seem to be taking the whole thing very well. Since they&#8217;re in such good spirits (and they don&#8217;t seem to have trashed <i>my<\/i> account), that we can have a jolly old time as well. Here&#8217;s a screenshot from their website (click on the image to go to their current site). <\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wamu.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/wamu.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"You're never gonna guess what happened...\" \/><\/a><br \/>I think a caption contest is in order, don&#8217;t you? I&#8217;ve got some to get you started:<\/p>\n<ul><i><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;Open your wallet and close your eyes, and you&#8217;re gonna get a big surprise&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I can&#8217;t bear to look.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Happy <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/reuters-dealzone\/2008\/09\/26\/fdic-crashes-wamus-birthday-bash\/\" target=\"_blank\">119th birthday<\/a>! You&#8217;ll never guess what we got you!&#8221;<\/li>\n<p><\/i><\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you can do better. The comments are open&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pals, Considering that it&#8217;s the largest bank failure in United States history, Washington Mutual and their new masters at JP Morgan Chase seem to be taking the whole thing very well. Since they&#8217;re in such good spirits (and they don&#8217;t seem to have trashed my account), that we can have a jolly old time as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/2008-9-26-financial-failure-photo-fun-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Financial Failure Photo Fun!&#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":[23,33],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contest","tag-economy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","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=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}