{"id":781,"date":"2007-03-28T09:25:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T14:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/cya-excuses\/"},"modified":"2007-03-28T09:25:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T14:25:43","slug":"cya-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/cya-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"C.Y.A. Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.salesopedia.com\/?p=66\" target=\"_blank\">Clayton at Salesopedia has a short, entertaining post<\/a> that provides 5 excellent excuses to use if you are caught napping in a meeting (I have been).&nbsp; Read the post, I guarantee you will laugh.<\/p>\n<p>My personal favorite:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u20ac\u0153They told me at the blood bank that this might happen.\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton at Salesopedia has a short, entertaining post that provides 5 excellent excuses to use if you are caught napping in a meeting (I have been).&nbsp; Read the post, I guarantee you will laugh. My personal favorite: \u20ac\u0153They told me at the blood bank that this might happen.\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-cB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1769,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/actual-excuses-for-missing-work\/","url_meta":{"origin":781,"position":0},"title":"Actual Excuses For Missing Work","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"CareerBuilder.com usually runs some sort of \"unusual reasons for missing work\" story every year.\u00a0 This year's offering is refined down to 8 entries, but is still fairly entertaining. 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