{"id":268,"date":"2003-06-18T19:13:05","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T02:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/01\/20\/giant-colon-bullfighter-god\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T19:15:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T02:15:29","slug":"giant-colon-bullfighter-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/18\/giant-colon-bullfighter-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant colon, Bullfighter, God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yay! <strong>A giant colon is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preventcancer.org\/colossalcolon\/Tour\/seattle.htm\" target=\"_blank\">coming                     to Seattle<\/a>!<\/strong> Keep the weekend of July 8th free                     &#8212; after the July 4th barbecues, come see what&#8217;s probably                     going on in your inner tubes. I&#8217;m much more excited about                     this than I should be, but then, I&#8217;m easily amused.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/giantcolon.jpg\" alt=\"Giant colon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dc.com\/bullfighter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bullfighter,                   a software program that converts awful corporate buzzwords                   into plain English<\/a>. The tagline for Bullfighter is &#8216;Stripping                   the Bull Out of Business&#8217;. After 12 years in the corporate                   arena (I shouldn&#8217;t even say the word &#8216;arena&#8217; &#8212; I mean, honestly,                   it provides no &#8216;value-added expectations&#8217;), it&#8217;s about time                   companies wrote in plain English. Of course, perhaps the wordiness                   was just a ploy to mask a lack of a business plan?<\/p>\n<p>God has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/god_dot_com\/\" target=\"_blank\">online                   journal<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/18\/giant-colon-bullfighter-god\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yay! A giant colon is coming to Seattle! Keep the weekend of July 8th free &#8212; after the July 4th barbecues, come see what&#8217;s probably going on in your inner tubes. I&#8217;m much more excited about this than I should be, but then, I&#8217;m easily amused. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has created Bullfighter, a software program &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/18\/giant-colon-bullfighter-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giant colon, Bullfighter, God&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/18\/giant-colon-bullfighter-god\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}