{"id":636,"date":"2013-08-18T12:13:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T20:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=636"},"modified":"2013-08-18T12:13:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T20:13:33","slug":"persuading-the-gate-keeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2013\/08\/18\/persuading-the-gate-keeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Persuading the gate keeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/culturebox\/2013\/08\/the_kindly_brontosaurus_the_amazing_prehistoric_posture_that_will_get_you.html?utm_source=tw&amp;utm_medium=sm&amp;utm_campaign=button_toolbar\">The Kindly Brontosaurus<\/a> [Slate.com]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A practitioner, nay, an artist, of the Kindly Brontosaurus method would approach the gate agent as follows. You state your name and request. You make a clear and concise case. And then, after the gate agent informs you that your chances of making it onto this flight are on par with the possibility that a dinosaur will spontaneously reanimate and teach himself to fly an airplane, you nod empathically, say something like \u201cWell, I\u2019m sure we can find a way to work this out,\u201d and step just to the side of the agent\u2019s kiosk.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole thing, and pay attention to the picture of the woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kindly Brontosaurus [Slate.com] A practitioner, nay, an artist, of the Kindly Brontosaurus method would approach the gate agent as follows. You state your name and request. You make a clear and concise case. And then, after the gate agent informs you that your chances of making it onto this flight are on par with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}