{"id":116,"date":"2011-07-19T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=116"},"modified":"2011-07-19T08:02:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:02:13","slug":"professional-miscommunication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Professional miscommunication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The apartment building in which I live is about to have some maintenance work done.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days ago, the company we have employed to do the work sent a note out to all residents. It\u2019s just a short note. All in all there are fewer than 100 words. (Even shorter than this post.) But there are three misspellings and seven instances of decidedly-dodgy grammar. There is also one sentence that could mean \u2026 well \u2026 just about anything. Or, quite possibly, nothing at all. Who can tell?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m afraid any confidence that I may have had in the company is disappearing faster than a very small puddle on a hot summer\u2019s day.<\/p>\n<p>I think there may be a lesson here. <em>\u2013 Jack Scrivano<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The apartment building in which I live is about to have some maintenance work done. A couple of days ago, the company we have employed to do the work sent a note out to all residents. It\u2019s just a short &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=116\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}