{"id":750,"date":"2009-04-16T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=750"},"modified":"2009-04-17T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:19:19","slug":"please-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/16\/please-explain\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Explain?&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just glanced at my calendar and noticed that the 22nd day of April is a really big day!&#8230;..  Not only is it &#8220;Earth Day&#8221;, it is &#8220;Administrative Professionals Day&#8221;!&#8230;&#8230;  Is that like a &#8220;Temporary Secretary (Sir Paul) Day&#8221;?&#8230;..  It just seems like a big name for a boring, thankless job&#8230;..  Don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230;.. The World would not survive without tons of processed paperwork, but, if we have a special day for secretaries, why not have a &#8220;Sanitation Engineers Day&#8221; for our hard working garbage men, or a &#8220;Inclement Weather Protection Specialist Day&#8221; for all those roofers out there?&#8230;..  Where does it end?&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Are secretaries on the same level of importance as Mother Earth?&#8230;..  Maybe &#8211; but, why on the same day?&#8230;..  There&#8217;s at least a couple of hundred others days left that honor no one&#8230;&#8230;  In the Army we called &#8217;em clerks, and, they seemed to be able to screw-up a soldier&#8217;s records, supply, R and R requests, and orders in more ways than you can count&#8230;&#8230;  Usually small stuff in the grand order of things, but, very, very important to a lonely soul twelve thousand miles from home stuck in the armpit of the Universe&#8230;..  They became known as REMF&#8217;s when I was in&#8230;&#8230; If you want to know what that stands for, just ask any Vietnam Vet&#8230;&#8230;  It took ten REMF&#8217;s to support just one combat grunt in the bush&#8230;.  They never got it entirely right, but, they did manage, at least, to get us enough &#8220;beans and bullets&#8221; to survive&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just glanced at my calendar and noticed that the 22nd day of April is a really big day!&#8230;.. Not only is it &#8220;Earth Day&#8221;, it is &#8220;Administrative Professionals Day&#8221;!&#8230;&#8230; Is that like a &#8220;Temporary Secretary (Sir Paul) Day&#8221;?&#8230;.. It just seems like a big name for a boring, thankless job&#8230;.. Don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230;.. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}