{"id":1645,"date":"2014-12-02T17:01:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T09:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2014-12-02T17:01:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T09:01:41","slug":"export-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2014\/12\/02\/export-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Export Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Suddenly, the company in California I\u2019ve been negotiating with is ready to sign.<\/p>\n<p>This is so important, to say nothing of the many months of work involved; I have to fly there now!<\/p>\n<p>The second I get off the phone from the airline, I phone a good Californian hotel to be sure of a reservation.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the Reservation Clerk wants both my credit card details and residential address. Patiently I spell Brisbane for her and then Australia. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cAren\u2019t you glad I don\u2019t live in Tallygaroopna or Coonabarabran,\u201d I conclude with a flourish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSir, you have no idea how glad.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarryO_Tweet\" target=\"_blank\">Barry O&#8217;Farrell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other stories by Barry O&#8217;Farrell have been published by Cyclamens and Swords and 50 Word Stories, even though he is an actor living in Brisbane, Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly, the company in California I\u2019ve been negotiating with is ready to sign. This is so important, to say nothing of the many months of work involved; I have to fly there now! The second I get off the phone from the airline, I phone a good Californian hotel to be sure of a reservation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2904,3155,3161,2978,3160,3154,105,3157,341,3159,3153,41,3156,3158],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-address","tag-airline","tag-australia","tag-barry-ofarrell","tag-brisbane","tag-business","tag-california","tag-clerk","tag-company","tag-credit-card","tag-exports","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hotel","tag-reservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}