{"id":2100,"date":"2009-04-01T08:52:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T08:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/stop-it-with-your-april-fools-fun\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T08:52:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T08:52:30","slug":"stop-it-with-your-april-fools-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/04\/stop-it-with-your-april-fools-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop It With Your April Fools &ldquo;Fun&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse me while I vent, but Aprils Fools Day just isn\u2019t fun anymore. Every single company wants to do something \u201cwacky and zany\u201d today and starts launching products that are almost, but not quite, possible.<\/p>\n<p>With so many Web 2.0 ideas a touch silly, but given VC capital anyway, there\u2019s little differentiation. So I quit. Nothing from me this morning. Move along. Stop wasting ideas, time, and people\u2019s goodwill.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"304\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image24.png\" width=\"420\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Just stop it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be back after midday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse me while I vent, but Aprils Fools Day just isn\u2019t fun anymore. Every single company wants to do something \u201cwacky and zany\u201d today and starts launching products that are almost, but not quite, possible. With so many Web 2.0 ideas a touch silly, but given VC capital anyway, there\u2019s little differentiation. So I quit. Nothing from me this morning. Move along. Stop wasting ideas, time, and people\u2019s goodwill. Just stop it. I\u2019ll be back after midday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,5,52],"tags":[1004,1005,1006],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","category-quote-for-the-day","category-web-2point0","tag-april-fools-day","tag-joke","tag-not-funny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-xS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}