{"id":530,"date":"2008-09-24T09:12:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T15:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/2008\/09\/24\/the-high-cost-of-success\/"},"modified":"2008-09-24T09:12:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T15:12:15","slug":"the-high-cost-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"The high cost of success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, my boss made an empty promise to another employee &#8212; something along the lines of &#8220;If we experience even marginal profitability by the end of the year, then we will&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 There was no danger of this being fulfilled, since we have never, ever turned a profit.<\/p>\n<p>Well, bafflingly, sometime around the beginning of this year, business began to boom.\u00a0 And so&#8230; the promise was kept.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/arcade1.jpg\" title=\"arcade1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/arcade1.jpg\" alt=\"arcade1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the custom paint job and illuminated trackball:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/arcade3.jpg\" title=\"arcade3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/arcade3.jpg\" alt=\"arcade3.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/arcade2.jpg\" title=\"arcade2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/arcade2.jpg\" alt=\"arcade2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Productivity is going to skyrocket!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, my boss made an empty promise to another employee &#8212; something along the lines of &#8220;If we experience even marginal profitability by the end of the year, then we will&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 There was no danger of this being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=530\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}