{"id":8337,"date":"2013-08-27T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8337"},"modified":"2013-08-27T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T10:01:04","slug":"it-was-best-if-steve-ballmer-left-sooner-than-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/08\/it-was-best-if-steve-ballmer-left-sooner-than-later\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was best if [Steve Ballmer] left sooner than later.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Instead, sources said Ballmer\u2019s timeline had been moved up drastically \u2014 first by him and then the nine-member board, including his longtime partner and Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates \u2014 after all agreed that<em> it was best if he left sooner than later.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if the Microsoft Board <a href=\"http:\/\/iainthepict.blogspot.co.uk\/2011\/11\/earl-of-douglas-and-black-dinner.html\">served up the head of a Black Bull<\/a> for dessert?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead, sources said Ballmer\u2019s timeline had been moved up drastically \u2014 first by him and then the nine-member board, including his longtime partner and Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates \u2014 after all agreed that it was best if he left sooner than later. I wonder if the Microsoft Board served up the head of a Black Bull for dessert?<\/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":[25,2245],"tags":[4806,3993,2424],"class_list":["post-8337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-windows-phone","tag-bulls-head","tag-resignation","tag-steve-ballmer","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2at","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337","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=8337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}