{"id":6369,"date":"2011-11-26T09:23:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T16:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=6369"},"modified":"2011-11-26T09:23:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T16:23:55","slug":"wine-or-golf-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/commentary\/6369\/wine-or-golf-drone","title":{"rendered":"Wine or Golf Drone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<table id=\"product_table\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\" width=\"655px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\" valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapingvoidgallery.com\/product_thumb.php?img=images\/Drone.gif&amp;w=540&amp;h=334\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Drone\" width=\"540\" height=\"334\" \/><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\">(Cartoon Courtesy of www.gapingvoidgallery.com &#8211; Check it out!)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"220\" align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>A friend brought this to my attention and it has been my experience that it applies to the golf industy.\u00a0 Is your business or industry inhabited by the Drones?\u00a0 Do you know any?\u00a0 (Certainly not you or me!)\u00a0 Below is the caption that followed.\u00a0 Do you &#8220;make waves&#8221; with in your field?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The best thing about being in the wine business was the people I got to meet, but not for the reasons they thought&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For someone on the outside though, it may be hard to imagine the kind of culture that comprises the wine industry (or maybe not). It doesn\u2019t take long for one to figure out that everyone is seemingly an expert, and that very few travel outside the boundaries of standard industry business practices. So, what you get is lots of recycled ideas and pundits offering nothing but more recycling. So, it\u2019s always exciting to see those few who are making waves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The character in today\u2019s cartoon isn\u2019t just a making a statement as to the culture of the wine industry&#8211;no no. He is found in every type of business, no matter what product they deal with.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cartoon and brief commentary are found at www.gapingvoidgallery.com.\u00a0 The art is by Hugh MacCleod.\u00a0 Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Cartoon Courtesy of www.gapingvoidgallery.com &#8211; Check it out!)&nbsp; &nbsp; A friend brought this to my attention and it has been&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/commentary\/6369\/wine-or-golf-drone\" title=\"ReadWine or Golf Drone?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[334,2248],"tags":[153059],"class_list":["post-6369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-business-coaching","tag-drone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6369"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6377,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369\/revisions\/6377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}