{"id":264,"date":"2006-07-06T19:41:24","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T23:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/?p=264"},"modified":"2006-07-06T19:41:24","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T23:41:24","slug":"r-is-for-rocket-p-is-for-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/2006\/07\/06\/r-is-for-rocket-p-is-for-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"R is for ROCKET, P is for PERSPECTIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I am just back from vacation, and still catching up on work, so this post will be mercifully short. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about perspective, people. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/search\/rocketboom\">Amanda Congdon leaves Rocketboom.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/06\/world\/asia\/06cnd-korea.html?ex=1152331200&amp;en=bafc07ba1e275955&amp;ei=5087%0A\">North Korea launches missiles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, both news items are about rockets, sort of, but let&#8217;s get real: a business split, of a small though high profile tech business, versus ongoing proof that our fearless leader picked the wrong &quot;axis of doom&quot; when looking for weapons of mass destruction. <\/p>\n<p>Sure Amanda is cute and Rocketboom was fun and the ongoing soap opera is like the proverbial train wreck. But, let&#8217;s have some perspective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/SPECIALS\/2003\/iraq\/forces\/casualties\/\">Troops are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/a> North Korea is marching irreversibly down a nuclear path. Gas prices are horrendous for consumers as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halliburton.com\/\">Halliburton<\/a> and other Cheney friends line their pockets. Tomorrow is the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2006\/0707\/p06s01-woeu.html\"> one-year anniversary of the London subway bombings.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think about it. <\/p>\n<p>Then hug your kids, pat your dogs and cats, kiss your spouse, call your mother. In whatever order floats your boat. <\/p>\n<p>Rocket who? <\/p>\n<p>Peace out.<\/p>\n<p><small>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Rocketboom\" rel=\"tag\">Rocketboom<\/a>,&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/North+Korea\" rel=\"tag\">North Korea<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I am just back from vacation, and still catching up on work, so this post will be mercifully short. It&#8217;s about perspective, people. Amanda Congdon leaves Rocketboom. North Korea launches missiles. Yeah, both news items are about rockets, sort of, but let&#8217;s get real: a business split, of a small though high profile tech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}