{"id":689,"date":"2009-02-16T00:49:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T05:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2011-05-16T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:43:24","slug":"my-first-ever-bit-of-schwag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/my-first-ever-bit-of-schwag\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Ever Bit Of Schwag!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you've been writing a blog as long as I have, you're never quite sure how, or if, you're really reaching people.  I try to put my heart and talents into each and every post (well, okay, I take a day off here and there), and sometimes I hear from some of you, and sometimes I don't.<\/p>\n<p>Well, for once, I know I actually did reach someone.  I received my first ever bit of \"schwag\", which actually has more than one meaning, but in this case means \"free stuff\".  From a blogger and fellow management and leadership guru named Jack Hayhow, who writes the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pigwisdom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Opus Training<\/b><\/a>, I received a model of a flying pig,...<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/pig003.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>and a copy of his latest book,...<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/pig001.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p> <b>The Wisdom Of The Flying Pig<\/b>.  <\/p>\n<p>I've got to tell you, I'm loving it, and I want to thank Jack for them.  Not sure what my wife and I will do with the pig right now, but I am going to read this book and I'll be writing a review of some type on this blog in the near future.  This is great stuff; anyone else want to send me free stuff?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;ve been writing a blog as long as I have, you&#8217;re never quite sure how, or if, you&#8217;re really reaching people. I try to put my heart and talents into each and every post (well, okay, I take a day off here and there), and sometimes I hear from some of you, and sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}