{"id":1404,"date":"2012-04-17T12:30:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2012-04-17T23:36:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T06:36:30","slug":"allegorical-april-day-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/?p=1404","title":{"rendered":"Allegorical April &#8211; Day 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120417-233422.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120417-233422.jpg\" alt=\"20120417-233422.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alligator Allegory:<br \/>\nThe objective of all dedicated product support employees should be to thoroughly analyze all situations, anticipate all problems prior to their occurrence, have answers for these problems, and move swiftly to solve these problems when called upon. However, when you are up to your ass in alligators, it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.  <\/p>\n<p>Love this!  Totally get it.  Out of curiosity though, has it been taken into consideration that if alligators are a primary concern as a threat to your daily security that perhaps it&#8217;s time to move out of the swamp instead of draining it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alligator Allegory: The objective of all dedicated product support employees should be to thoroughly analyze all situations, anticipate all problems prior to their occurrence, have answers for these problems, and move swiftly to solve these problems when called upon. However, when you are up to your ass in alligators, it is difficult to remind yourself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allegorical-april"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120417-233422.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}