{"id":338,"date":"2004-02-11T02:51:37","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T02:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:30","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:30","slug":"connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got to spend the morning Monday with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritofamerica.net\/blog\/\" target=\"browser\">Jim Hake<\/a> at Camp Pendleton, meeting with a bunch of the Marines he helped so much (thanks, Jim, for having me along!).<\/p>\n<p>My first comment is one that&#8217;s kind of embarrassing to me, because it shows how parochial my life has really been. I can&#8217;t believe the intelligence, depth, and just plain competence of the officers and troops we met. It&#8217;s scary, because comparing them to the general run of managers I deal with doesn&#8217;t necessarily paint a good picture of the civilian world. And worst of all, it violates a bunch of my own biases and preconceptions.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to learn to deal with that.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting note of the morning was this: We were met at the gate by Eric, the young officer who acted as our guide around the base. He was driving his personal car, a <a href=\"http:\/\/auto.howstuffworks.com\/hybrid-car9.htm\" target=\"browser\">Toyota Prius hybrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I asked him how he liked it (<i>a lot<\/i>) and why he bought it (<i>just can&#8217;t see buying something that uses a lot of gas these days<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else want to make the connection??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got to spend the morning Monday with Jim Hake at Camp Pendleton, meeting with a bunch of the Marines he helped so much (thanks, Jim, for having me along!). My first comment is one that&#8217;s kind of embarrassing to me, because it shows how parochial my life has really been. I can&#8217;t believe the intelligence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}