{"id":1649,"date":"2009-01-29T21:30:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T21:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2009-01-29T21:30:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T21:30:26","slug":"good_night_and_good_luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/29\/good_night_and_good_luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Night, and Good Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depression II, the sequel no one wants to see, has finally premiered at a business near me. Meaning that 13 of my coworkers, including some people I consider friends as well as colleagues, got laid off today. I personally escaped the ax, and I feel reasonably safe given my position and current workload, but damn it&#8217;s been a lousy day. The way these things are handled in this liability-conscious and paranoid age tends to drag out the process over several hours, and the constant sense of dread, the wondering if <i>your<\/i> phone is going to be the next one to ring with the call to come up to HR, is utterly exhausting. The metaphor that kept coming to my mind is the Curse of the First Born scene from <i>The Ten Commandments<\/i>, when the Hebrews hunker down in their homes while the evil green fog slinks through the streets outside, killing unnamed extras by the dozens. If another round of this seems imminent, I&#8217;m seriously tempted to paint my cubicle with lamb&#8217;s blood.<\/p>\n<p>After a day like this, nothing is really very funny, but this LOLcat struck me as&#8230; <i>appropriate<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/2009\/01\/29\/funny-pictures-tellin-u-2-go-home\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mine_3108375\" alt=\"bartender kitteh  iz tellin u 2 go home\" src=\"http:\/\/images.icanhascheezburger.com\/completestore\/2009\/1\/13\/128763435435369780.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nmore <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\">animals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I imagine a lot of my coworkers are in this condition right now. Me, I&#8217;m just worn out. Off to bed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depression II, the sequel no one wants to see, has finally premiered at a business near me. Meaning that 13 of my coworkers, including some people I consider friends as well as colleagues, got laid off today. I personally escaped the ax, and I feel reasonably safe given my position and current workload, but damn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}