{"id":1068,"date":"2007-09-20T06:28:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2007-09-20T08:28:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T15:28:26","slug":"five-minutes-in-business-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Five Minutes In Business Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/5mnlogo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/5mnlogo.jpg','popup','width=500,height=279,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/5mnlogo-tm.jpg\" height=\"111\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"5Mnlogo\" \/><\/a>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbad.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce<\/a><\/strong> is hosting a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5minutenetworking.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Minute Networking<\/a><\/strong> session on September 27, 2007 at what we still like to call &#8220;<strong>Pea Soup Anderson&#8217;s<\/strong>&#8220;. It sounds like one of the silliest exercises ever. For only $30:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You will have the opportunity to meet up to 20 individuals, one-on-one, in 5 minute increments. In a 5 minute meeting with another individual, you can describe your respective businesses, exchange business cards, and pass on referrals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can you imagine our five mintues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi, we&#8217;re The Editors of <strong><em>Carlsbadistan<\/em><\/strong>. We search the Internet for interesting, odd, shocking, or silly stories related in someway to Carlsbad and we put them up on a website that nobody reads. . . you say you&#8217;re a single, 37 year old real estate agent with two kids (five and seven), and a roofing business on the side? Here&#8217;s my card, oh, and do you know any really good massage therapists?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like a bad version of speed dating. Maybe we should go. . . undercover and report back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbad.org\/products\/productList.aspx?uid=27-178\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce is hosting a 5 Minute Networking session on September 27, 2007 at what we still like to call &#8220;Pea Soup Anderson&#8217;s&#8220;. It sounds like one of the silliest exercises ever. For only $30: You will have the opportunity to meet up to 20 individuals, one-on-one, in 5 minute increments. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}