{"id":156,"date":"2009-02-23T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T02:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/23\/a-funny-thing-happened\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T20:23:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T00:23:54","slug":"a-funny-thing-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/23\/a-funny-thing-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"A funny thing happened&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this last week was a bit of a roller-coaster with all sorts of surprise projects and issues popping up on the radar screen. And last Friday as I got back to my office after the last round of meetings, I discovered a message on my phone. A good message. I had just won an iPod Touch.<\/p>\n<p>A while back, Allegra Printing here in Okemos, sent me some marketing material which was for a free download of a whitepaper on print collateral marketing and mailing &#8211; which can be a great way, if used intelligently, of helping customers stay informed about your products and services (as Allegra demonstrated to me). Anyway, to download the whitepaper, you were given a unique URL to the download, which entered you to win an iPod touch. So I read the whitepaper and answered a small marketing survey.<\/p>\n<p>And there you go &#8211; I had won an iPod Touch. Pretty funny.<br \/>\nSo any good apps or games I should get for this thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this last week was a bit of a roller-coaster with all sorts of surprise projects and issues popping up on the radar screen. And last Friday as I got back to my office after the last round of meetings, I discovered a message on my phone. A good message. I had just won an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}