{"id":1357,"date":"2008-08-11T15:14:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T20:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2008-08-11T15:17:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T20:17:54","slug":"ok-its-official-the-big-new-business-pitch-results-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"OK, It&#8217;s Official. The Big New Business Pitch Results Are In!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew last week, but couldn&#8217;t say anything.\u00a0 My ad agency is the official agency of record for&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>wait for it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>drum roll&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>cue fireworks&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/main\/home.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer Reports<\/a> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>We will get the full scope of our assignment next week (I anticipate more harried Plurking via mobile phone as we travel!).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve worked on some fabulous accounts in my life, and I&#8217;ve worked on gigantic chemical companies that made my father cringe. (I&#8217;ve never forgotten a conversation on the phone &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;ve spent my life as an environmentalist and my daughter works for XX?!&#8221; Another city, another job, but still. I hated his disapproval.)<\/p>\n<p>Dad would approve. Highly. My Auntie Karen approves and agreed, Rick would have been proud. I talked about him in the new business pitch, and credited him for my own fervid love of the magazine. It makes me sad he didn&#8217;t live to see it, but my joy is still unchecked.\u00a0 Oh, and I got to tour a chunk of the building when we were there &#8211; I was almost shaking with excitement.\u00a0 To see where they test cameras, and televisions, and scooters, and laundry detergent. Maybe to some folks this seems mundane and geeky, but to me? Nir-frickin-vana.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. If I had a 40, I&#8217;d pour a little on the curb for ya, Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew last week, but couldn&#8217;t say anything.\u00a0 My ad agency is the official agency of record for&#8230;.. wait for it&#8230;. drum roll&#8230;.. cue fireworks&#8230;.. Consumer Reports magazine. We will get the full scope of our assignment next week (I anticipate more harried Plurking via mobile phone as we travel!). I&#8217;ve worked on some fabulous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,50,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}