{"id":49,"date":"2005-03-29T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T15:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/?p=49"},"modified":"2005-03-29T10:52:47","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T15:52:47","slug":"humourless-corporate-droids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2005\/03\/29\/humourless-corporate-droids\/","title":{"rendered":"Humourless corporate droids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I worked at Hayes Microcomputer Products, the modems came in a nice extruded aluminum case.  I once suggested that they should take a few cases, anodize them with a nice purple tint.  They could hold a contest or something, on Jimi&#8217;s birthday, to give away these Purple Hayes modems.<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t go for it.  Heaven forbid they do anything cool, that might detract from their professional corporate image.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps if they had listened to me, they would still be a force in the market today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I worked at Hayes Microcomputer Products, the modems came in a nice extruded aluminum case. I once suggested that they should take a few cases, anodize them with a nice purple tint. They could hold a contest or something, on Jimi&#8217;s birthday, to give away these Purple Hayes modems. They didn&#8217;t go for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}