{"id":2414,"date":"2008-08-01T12:58:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T17:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2008-08-01T12:58:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T17:58:51","slug":"its-time-to-make-the-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/01\/its-time-to-make-the-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to make the announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, time to get back to that cliffhanger from this morning&#8230; where I left everyone hanging about the BFF of the Month announcement.<\/p>\n<p>But wait, it wouldn&#8217;t be a cliffhanger without a commercial in the middle, right?\u00a0 SO&#8230; check back after work today for another announcement&#8230; the launch of my latest online store.\u00a0 The target audience for this new site is very similar to the target audience for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tubetopboutique.com\">Tube Top Boutique<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll be announced sometime between 5 and 6 PM.<\/p>\n<p>All right, let&#8217;s get back to it.\u00a0 We had three finalists:\u00a0 Stephanie, Kristin and Darbi, and Jenny and Michelle.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I have a confession to make.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been stringing everyone along.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve known for over two weeks now who my pick for the August BFF of the Month will be.\u00a0 I was still open to suggestions through the end of July, but I had a pretty good idea who I was going to pick all along.<\/p>\n<p>I just figured I&#8217;d create a little tension and competition with my July 30 &#8220;BFF candidates have one last chance to state their case&#8221; comment.<\/p>\n<p>It worked too.\u00a0 Several BFF candidates lobbied for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>However&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>only one BFF candidate sent me this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you make us your August BFF, Darbi and I promise to wear these!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/thong.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2415\" title=\"thong\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/thong.jpg?resize=480%2C480\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/thong.jpg?w=480 480w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/thong.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/thong.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How can I argue with logic like that?\u00a0 Especially when I had already picked them as the winner in my mind anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the August BFFs of the Month, <strong>Kristin and Darbi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/memo0077.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2416\" title=\"memo0077\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/memo0077.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/memo0077.jpg?w=1600 1600w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/memo0077.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, time to get back to that cliffhanger from this morning&#8230; where I left everyone hanging about the BFF of the Month announcement. But wait, it wouldn&#8217;t be a cliffhanger without a commercial in the middle, right?\u00a0 SO&#8230; check back after work today for another announcement&#8230; the launch of my latest online store.\u00a0 The target &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/01\/its-time-to-make-the-announcement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s time to make the announcement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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