{"id":1265,"date":"2004-06-17T05:22:30","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T09:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/400am_news_from"},"modified":"2004-06-17T05:22:30","modified_gmt":"2004-06-17T09:22:30","slug":"400am_news_from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"4:00AM news from around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Chapman, our <strike>Tokio<\/strike> Tokyo correspondent and bemused <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee-chapman.com\/tokyo_times\/2004\/06\/mildly_amusing_.html\">Master of English<\/a>, reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee-chapman.com\/tokyo_times\/2004\/06\/cool_clothing.html\">cool clothing<\/a> from Japan that would come in very handy during Virginia&#8217;s dog-breath weather.<\/p>\n<p>(Mind not fully functional yet. Still half-awake. Will try to do better.)  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lloydlemons.com\/lloyd_lemons_at_large\/faq.htm\">Lloyd Lemons<\/a>, ghost writer at large in Florida, is writing a book about micro-businesses. If you haven&#8217;t had your 15 minutes of fame yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lloydlemons.com\/lloyd_lemons_at_large\/2004\/06\/seeking_microbu.html\">he is looking for people to interview<\/a> on the subject of their history with micro-business success and failure.<\/p>\n<p>Life is not all business and Beth, a day-trading Floridian, shows it is possible to have a life and a business. Her description of an <a href=\"http:\/\/longleaf.typepad.com\/switched_at_birth\/2004\/06\/evening_walk.html\">evening walk<\/a> in the Florida Panhandle is another of her lyrical accounts of everyday life. Visiting her blog is like turning off the world and visiting a place where time pays out at a more leisurely pace.<\/p>\n<p>Ross, in West LA, spins out a refresing mix of business quotes, articles, and opinions to help you <a href=\"http:\/\/strategize.blogspot.com\/2004\/06\/lessons-from-starbucks-howard-schultz.html\">Strategize<\/a>. My personal favorite? This quote from Tom Peters: <block quote><br \/>\n<center>Do Cool Shit<br \/>Every Damn Day<br \/>Or Die Trying<\/center><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dane Carlson at Business Opportunities Weblog captures an amazing number of business-related quotes I haven&#8217;t seen elsewhere. This post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-opportunities.biz\/archives\/2004\/06\/14\/5742.php\">entrepreneurs<\/a> is well worth bookmarking.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the hills of Southern Virginia, Fred First has lost his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com\/archives\/002164.html\">fizz.<\/a> He should probably check out Lee Chapman&#8217;s blog and find out where he can get one of those cool Japanese jackets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Chapman, our Tokio Tokyo correspondent and bemused Master of English, reports on cool clothing from Japan that would come in very handy during Virginia&#8217;s dog-breath weather. (Mind not fully functional yet. Still half-awake. Will try to do better.) Lloyd &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1265\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1794],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-kp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}