{"id":71,"date":"2005-01-26T21:10:48","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T02:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/wordpress\/?p=71"},"modified":"2005-01-26T21:10:48","modified_gmt":"2005-01-27T02:10:48","slug":"back-at-school-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Back at school again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New semester in what seems like my endless quest for a BA in IT Management from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcou.ca\/\">BC Open University.<\/a> Two courses this term: &#8220;Open Communication&#8221; and &#8220;e-Business in a Competitive Environment&#8221; (which, so far, isn&#8217;t as silly as its title).<br \/>\nDoing some research for one of the discussion questions in the e-Biz course led me to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/cyberspace\/july-dec99\/amazon_7-7.html\">1999 transcription<\/a> of a conversation between Paul Solman and Jeff Bezos (of Amazon.com fame) that had a creepy intro:<br \/>\n<i>PAUL SOLMAN: What is this?<br \/>\nJEFFREY BEZOS, CEO, Amazon.com: This is my World Trade Center escape kit. It&#8217;s a &#8212;<br \/>\nPAUL SOLMAN: World Trade Center escape kit?<br \/>\nJEFFREY BEZOS: &#8212; a flashlight and, you know, a honking Swiss Army knife. It even has pliers.<br \/>\nPAUL SOLMAN: He keeps it on hand because when New York&#8217;s World Trade Center was bombed a few years ago, folks were stuck in the elevators.<br \/>\nJEFFREY BEZOS: And it turned out if you&#8217;d had this simple tool you could have carved your way out of those elevators.<br \/>\nPAUL SOLMAN: Carved your way out of the elevators?<br \/>\nJEFFREY BEZOS: Yes. No Problem. So I got my whole family these World Trade Center escape kits.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New semester in what seems like my endless quest for a BA in IT Management from BC Open University. Two courses this term: &#8220;Open Communication&#8221; and &#8220;e-Business in a Competitive Environment&#8221; (which, so far, isn&#8217;t as silly as its title). Doing some research for one of the discussion questions in the e-Biz course led me&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=71\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back at school again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lincoln","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}