{"id":647,"date":"2021-01-12T20:28:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T20:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keenertech.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2021-01-12T20:28:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T20:28:19","slug":"the-careerbank-blimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"The CareerBank Blimp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"526\" src=\"http:\/\/dkeener.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/careerbank_blimp.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/careerbank_blimp.jpg 750w, https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/careerbank_blimp-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Once upon a time (during the Internet Boom), I worked for <g class=\"gr_ gr_125 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"125\" data-gr-id=\"125\">a Internet<\/g> startup business called CareerBank.com, leading a development team consisting of web developers and graphic designers. Despite the generic name, CareerBank.com was a specialist career site for the accounting, finance, and banking industries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day a bunch of us were sitting around and joking after a long day at the office. This was probably sometime in mid-2002, because the Internet Bust hadn&#8217;t happened yet. Somebody said, &#8220;You know, we seem to be doin&#8217; pretty <g class=\"gr_ gr_61 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"61\" data-gr-id=\"61\">good<\/g>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I said, &#8220;Well, we don&#8217;t have a blimp yet.&#8221; This was a reference to the Goodyear blimp, which filmed sports events from above and continually advertised the Goodyear brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About a week or so later, my team presented me with a framed picture of the CareerBank.com blimp taking off from a field, while a smaller blimp from a competitor could be seen in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time (during the Internet Boom), I worked for a Internet startup business called CareerBank.com, leading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[42,156],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","tag-careerbank","tag-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}