{"id":787,"date":"2009-10-06T16:29:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2009-10-06T16:29:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T14:29:42","slug":"this-post-brought-to-you-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"This Post Brought To You By&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7\" title=\"paperwork\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/paperwork.jpg\" alt=\"paperwork\" width=\"119\" height=\"150\" \/>Today it was<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/more?pz=1&amp;cf=all&amp;ncl=d-XtAD81VVykjiMHUlS_6LOnl9zpM&amp;topic=t\"> broadly reported<\/a> that bloggers must inform consumers when they receive contributions for promotions they make on their blogs.  But one wonders where it stops.  Shouldn&#8217;t one&#8217;s day job have as much, if not more, material impact on what one says and doesn&#8217;t say?  What about one&#8217;s stock portfolio?<\/p>\n<p>For the record, this site makes me $0.\u00a0 I work for Cisco Systems.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t reveal my stock portfolio, but will tell you that I constrain my postings on this site to at least not completely inflame my superiors on business-related matters.\u00a0 That means that if you&#8217;re looking for someone who is critical of MPLS and many Internet Service Providers, while I am, I&#8217;m probably not going to rant here about it.\u00a0 Some of those people are customers, and they might reasonably ask what I am doing to make things better.<\/p>\n<p>I will say this about my stock portfolio.\u00a0 It hasn&#8217;t stopped me from talking negatively about some of the companies whose shares I have owned, believe it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it was broadly reported that bloggers must inform consumers when they receive contributions for promotions they make on their blogs. But one wonders where it stops. Shouldn&#8217;t one&#8217;s day job have as much, if not more, material impact on what one says and doesn&#8217;t say? What about one&#8217;s stock portfolio? For the record, this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Post Brought To You By&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[493,174],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid-stuff","tag-politics","tag-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}