He has white hair and a long, white beard. If it were Christmas time, it wouldn’t be surprising to see him in a big, red suit.<\/p>\n
He talks with a friendly drawl: a tone and way of speaking that makes him easy to listen to. Listening to him, you want to be his friend.\u00a0And he dresses down: blue jeans, tennis shoes, never a tie. He looks like he sounds: pleasant, low-key, easy to get along with.<\/p>\n
So we had a big meeting the other day.<\/p>\n
It had been on our calendars for a very long time. A meeting in a big, fancy room with big, fancy monitors on the walls and microphones within the reach of everyone. A meeting with higher-ups seated around a long table that encircled a podium. A meeting where the presenters all wore ties.<\/p>\n
William was one of the presenters.<\/p>\n
We passed him in the hallway beforehand. He was wearing dress slacks and a long-sleeved dress shirt. And he was wearing a tie. A tie! William was wearing a tie!<\/em> But as he passed, we noticed that he was also wearing running shoes. Running shoes with his tie.<\/p>\n You know, you gotta draw the line somewhere, otherwise folks might begin to wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He has white hair and a long, white beard. If it were Christmas time, it wouldn’t be surprising to see him in a big, red suit. He talks with a friendly drawl: a tone and way of speaking that makes him easy to listen to. Listening to him, you want to be his friend.\u00a0And he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}