{"id":397,"date":"2009-12-23T00:03:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T05:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2011-02-07T16:11:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T21:11:56","slug":"mind-your-manners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/mind-your-manners\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Your Manners."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first-letter\">W<\/span>e received an email from a stranger today. Here it is in its entirety:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>do you do PHP\/MySQL development for DB driven dynamic websites?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ignoring the industry tech gobbledygook for a moment&#8230;what ever happened to simple manners? No &#8220;hello.&#8221; No proper introduction. No foreplay or sweet talk. He just cut right to the chase. And to make matters worse, the leading &#8220;D&#8221; isn&#8217;t even capitalized. C&#8217;mon now.<\/p>\n<p>You would never cold-call someone without at least identifying yourself and exchanging pleasantries. Why is email any different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We received an email from a stranger today. Here it is in its entirety: do you do PHP\/MySQL development for DB driven dynamic websites? Ignoring the industry tech gobbledygook for a moment&#8230;what ever happened to simple manners? No &#8220;hello.&#8221; No proper introduction. No foreplay or sweet talk. He just cut right to the chase. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}