{"id":1489,"date":"2011-06-09T13:18:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2011-06-09T13:18:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T19:18:46","slug":"inspiring_thoug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring thought of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was shaping up to be a dreary Thursday until I stumbled upon this <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/theres-perfect-ad-for-everyone.html\">headline<\/a> over at The Official Google Blog: &#8220;There&#8217;s a perfect ad for everyone.&#8221; I felt as if some benevolent god had hurled a spear of sunlight through the clouds and hit the bullseye of my heart dead-on. For close to a half century now, I have been searching for my perfect ad, and I have to confess that I had begun to despair that the object of my desire, the ad that would be the apple of my eye, simply didn&#8217;t exist in this world. A couple of nights ago, after perhaps one too many glasses of wine, I found myself tearfully saying to myself: <em>I will never find my perfect ad.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I should not have underestimated Google and its kindhearted ad-serving algorithms. Now I know that somewhere deep in the Googleplex a flock of code-writing cupids is hard at work fashioning a promotional message that will dovetail perfectly with each and every one of my rational and emotional purchasing triggers. I need only be patient. My ad will come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was shaping up to be a dreary Thursday until I stumbled upon this headline over at The Official Google Blog: &#8220;There&#8217;s a perfect ad for everyone.&#8221; I felt as if some benevolent god had hurled a spear of sunlight through the clouds and hit the bullseye of my heart dead-on. For close to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}