{"id":513,"date":"2007-12-23T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=513"},"modified":"2007-12-23T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T16:56:00","slug":"my-eager-response-to-alfreds-letter-of-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/my-eager-response-to-alfreds-letter-of-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"My eager response to Alfred&#8217;s letter of &#8216;thanks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 23\/12\/2007, Roy Blumenthal &lt;schmucknews@gmail.com&gt; wrote:<br \/>Ah, Alfred! (I apologise if I&#39;m being very forward. In my culture we<br \/>believe that a person&#39;s first name is very much a part of their soul.<br \/>And it&#39;s rude if we use surnames. But I do understand that maybe your<br \/>culture is different. I want you to know that I respect and admire the<br \/>French. You are French, are you not?)<\/p>\n<p>You&#39;re too clever for me! You SAY you want to work with me, but you<br \/>neglect to mention my percentage split.<\/p>\n<p>I want guarantees. I want to know that I can trust you.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t want to trust you 1%.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t want to trust you 10%.<\/p>\n<p>No, Alfred. I want to trust you 100%.<\/p>\n<p>So how can we work together when I don&#39;t even trust you 0%?<\/p>\n<p>Prove your loyalty, big man. I eagerly await your message assuring me<br \/>of your honesty. And of your ability to circumvent the law for mutual<br \/>gain.<\/p>\n<p>If it weren&#39;t for the fact that I&#39;m a fairly religious half-Jew (I go<br \/>to shul for the first half of the Friday night Shabbos), and a<br \/>slightly religious half-Christian (not the bottom half, I assure<br \/>you!), I MIGHT be inclined to believe that your intentions might not<br \/>be godly.<\/p>\n<p>So. I&#39;ll remind you. Where&#39;s my proof? I want at least 50% of the<br \/>US$23.6 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 23\/12\/2007, Roy Blumenthal &lt;schmucknews@gmail.com&gt; wrote:Ah, Alfred! (I apologise if I&#39;m being very forward. In my culture webelieve that a person&#39;s first name is very much a part of their soul.And it&#39;s rude if we use surnames. But I do &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/my-eager-response-to-alfreds-letter-of-thanks\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My eager response to Alfred&#8217;s letter of &#8216;thanks&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-8h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}