{"id":373,"date":"2006-11-15T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/?p=373"},"modified":"2006-11-15T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T02:17:00","slug":"business-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Business Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chaoskid.com\/nano2006\/uploaded_images\/Photo%2043-768394.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaoskid.com\/nano2006\/uploaded_images\/Photo%2043-768394.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=320 height=240 \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Word count: 34488<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>I press the button for the elevator and wait for its arrival with a couple businessmen in suits. We exchange polite nods and they continue a conversation that matches the vague and complicated language from Lobranches\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 website. They speak of cross-valued silo platform pollenation or some such thing. Business speak has always eluded me. It might as well be an unbreakable cipher. I like playing along, though, so I nod like I know what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking about, as if contemplating my own issues with cross-ventilated value-added self-leveraged synergistic nodes. God bless these people for being on the frontlines, down in the trenches, getting the work of America done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word count: 34488 I press the button for the elevator and wait for its arrival with a couple businessmen in suits. We exchange polite nods and they continue a conversation that matches the vague and complicated language from Lobranches\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 website. They speak of cross-valued silo platform pollenation or some such thing. Business speak has always [&hellip;]<\/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-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}