{"id":5984,"date":"2013-08-25T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2014-02-22T22:48:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T03:48:20","slug":"i-got-an-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5984","title":{"rendered":"I got an email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this night, from an old customer, someone I have worked with a while<\/p>\n<p>I did a lot of work for them over the winter of 09\/10, spending the better part of a month there. I spent enough time there that I took to leaving my kit there during the week.<\/p>\n<p>This customer- the engineer on the job, who was just beginning to take over responsibility for the automation- sent me this note. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear ____:<\/p>\n<p>One night when you left your tools here, I opened your toolbox and went through it. I saw what you do and woindered if you had some kind of magical toolbox that allowed you to do such wonderful things. So I looked at your tools and saw nothing unusual. <\/p>\n<p>Still, you seemed to be able to do things that our millwrights with giant toolboxes couldn&#8217;t do. <\/p>\n<p>So another night when you left I took inventory and bought every tool, trying to purchase even the same brand when it was available. And now, several years later, I find that there is almost nothing I cannot accomplish with the tools in that kit. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have chosen those tools pretty carefully over the years, and they work OK for me, but I gotta say, it was cool having someone else notice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this night, from an old customer, someone I have worked with a while I did a lot of work for them over the winter of 09\/10, spending the better part of a month there. I spent enough time there that I took to leaving my kit there during the week. This customer- the engineer on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}