{"id":496,"date":"2008-08-01T09:36:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T14:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomideas.net\/?p=496"},"modified":"2008-08-01T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T14:36:47","slug":"my-two-strike-contingency-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"My &quot;Two Strike Contingency Rule&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a general policy that I follow in matters from whom I help out personally to my choice of employers: when offering my services, either freely or in return for something, I will only accept two refusals before permanently writing the prospect off and pursuing other contingencies. I&#8217;m also inclined to drive a harder bargain the second time.<\/p>\n<p>The primary purpose of this is not to punish anyone (if they can really benefit from my skills, they&#8217;ve already punished themselves by refusing them, after all), but simply to ensure that I always continue to move and make progress towards my goals. Such things have momentum, and should I detour too long in the act of convincing others of a worth that should already be self-evident from my past accomplishments, I will be hard pressed to get back on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a general policy that I follow in matters from whom I help out personally to my choice of employers: when offering my services, either freely or in return for something, I will only accept two refusals before permanently writing the prospect off and pursuing other contingencies. I&#8217;m also inclined to drive a harder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}