{"id":1872,"date":"2007-07-13T01:13:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/responses-to-the-big-news\/"},"modified":"2007-07-13T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T17:22:32","slug":"responses-to-the-big-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/responses-to-the-big-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Responses to the Big News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently not all visitors to my website are geeks. For those people that are NOT geeks, my heart goes out to you. For ye see laddie, Geekdom is a proud place and it&#8217;s inhabitants are fiercely loyal to each other.<\/p>\n<p>It has been upsetting to some that I posted my &#8220;BIG NEWS&#8221; announcement in *binary &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/the-big-news\/\">Click Here For The Original Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First response received is: &#8220;I fired my tech, he can&#8217;t decipher your code&#8221; and included this image attachment:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/firedmytech.jpg\" title=\"firedmytech.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/firedmytech.jpg\" alt=\"firedmytech.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok, that was pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Second response was: &#8220;Whad&#8217;ya suggest for those of us who ain&#8217;t got no Captain Kangaroo magic ring?&#8221; along with this beautiful picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/yep.bmp\" title=\"yep.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/yep.bmp\" alt=\"yep.bmp\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Third response was: &#8220;Aha girls, we did it. We cracked the code!&#8221; and included this photo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/2037joannastefmecheryl.jpg\" title=\"2037joannastefmecheryl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/2037joannastefmecheryl.jpg\" alt=\"2037joannastefmecheryl.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the fourth response was posted as a comment by Tony on the thread itself: &#8220;Congrats.&#8221; So I know I have at least one fellow geek friend out there. And that&#8217;s all I have to say about THAT.<\/p>\n<p><em>*For non-Geeks, that&#8217;s the big hint right there. Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently not all visitors to my website are geeks. For those people that are NOT geeks, my heart goes out to you. For ye see laddie, Geekdom is a proud place and it&#8217;s inhabitants are fiercely loyal to each other. It has been upsetting to some that I posted my &#8220;BIG NEWS&#8221; announcement in *binary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-uc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}