{"id":697,"date":"2006-08-31T13:12:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=697"},"modified":"2006-08-31T13:12:12","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T20:12:12","slug":"laughing-with-mainframes-what-a-bunch-of-hoey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/laughing-with-mainframes-what-a-bunch-of-hoey\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughing with Mainframes: What a bunch of Hoey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"YouTube - Mainframe - The Art of the Sale, Lesson Three\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=vQPX4-1uuw0&amp;mode=related&amp;search=\">YouTube &#8211; Mainframe &#8211; The Art of the Sale, Lesson Three<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I first met fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/mainframe.typepad.com\/blog\/\">mainframe blog<\/a> author Bob Hoey earlier this year and thought &#8211; solid executive, knows the score, we got along well.  <\/p>\n<p>He is personable and funny. But I didn&#8217;t realise quite how funny he is. Nor what a great sidekick Tim Washer would make.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the iSeries folks started nailing some solid humour in their ads, and now the System z folks have caught the bug.<\/p>\n<p>A $100k mainframe &#8211; &#8220;are you looking to replace your 386?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This may all sound dry but I am telling you the three videos are very funny. Go and check them out.  <\/p>\n<p>Well done Bob for laughing at yourself. Selling big iron the David Brent way.<\/p>\n<p>System z: Its like a barn.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah &#8211; I am back. I must be sick. First post&#8230;  on system z&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube &#8211; Mainframe &#8211; The Art of the Sale, Lesson Three I first met fellow mainframe blog author Bob Hoey earlier this year and thought &#8211; solid executive, knows the score, we got along well. He is personable and funny. But I didn&#8217;t realise quite how funny he is. Nor what a great sidekick Tim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-bf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}