{"id":438,"date":"2005-05-12T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/?p=438"},"modified":"2005-05-12T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T19:32:00","slug":"the-king-of-street-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/2005\/05\/12\/the-king-of-street-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"The King of Street Furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Brush with &#8220;fame&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/piratealice\/shelter.jpg\" height=\"363\" width=\"484\"><\/p>\n<p>Today I met the man behind the Chicago bus shelters (as seen above in a photo found via Google Image Search). Yes, I met Mr Decaux himself! And ya know, when I found out he was coming to the meeting I was impressed. Call me simple, call me crazy, call me easily impressed&#8230;but no matter how you look at it, I thought it was cool that the MAN himself was coming to my office.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not very tall, and he&#8217;s quite thin. And he&#8217;s got an awesome French\/British accent.  I say French\/British because SG thought he sounded French, I thought he sounded British. And she&#8217;s like, but Decaux is French and I said, France isn&#8217;t far from Britian&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230;and to prove Mr Decaux doesn&#8217;t screen receptionists well, when I called their offices (the ones in New York cuz I was looking for info on advertising in a mall in Denver and the Denver number I found didn&#8217;t work) this is what went down:<\/p>\n<p>Receptionist: JC Decaux how may I help you?<br \/>Me: I&#8217;d like to speak to someone regarding advertising in a mall in Denver.<br \/>Receptionist: Is Denver near Chicago?<br \/>Me: Uh? Denver is in COLORADO&#8230;Chicago is in ILLINOIS<\/p>\n<p>So his staff may not be brilliant&#8230;but his accent is hot&#8230;I could listen to him talk for HOURS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brush with &#8220;fame&#8221; Today I met the man behind the Chicago bus shelters (as seen above in a photo found via Google Image Search). Yes, I met Mr Decaux himself! And ya know, when I found out he was coming to the meeting I was impressed. Call me simple, call me crazy, call me easily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}