{"id":357,"date":"2009-01-27T09:47:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T16:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2009-02-06T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T13:00:05","slug":"steady-as-she-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/steady-as-she-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"steady as she goes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Money<\/a> podcast isn\u2019t good for anyone who\u2019s worried about the economy. If watching stock tickers go up and down is akin to a train wreck, Planet Money is the calm, professional narration. It tells you more than you really need to know and gives you cause to worry about things that you didn\u2019t even know you could worry about. Particularly when you\u2019re watching all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2009\/01\/welcome_to_layoff_land.html\" target=\"_blank\">layoffs pop up left and right<\/a> around you.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m lucky; I\u2019m still employed. And it sounds like my group is going to be lucky enough not to take any heavy casualties as the \u2018soft making cuts. But, honestly, I\u2019m not sure we\u2019d know if it was around the corner or not. My group\/division has been lucky, and not so much in the Vegas sense.<\/p>\n<p>Our management chalks it up to good planning and making hard decisions over and over again for the last year or so which has put us into a place where we don\u2019t have to make drastic cuts now. If that\u2019s the case, I hope they keep the course of that ship steady as she goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to the Planet Money podcast isn\u2019t good for anyone who\u2019s worried about the economy. If watching stock tickers go up and down is akin to a train wreck, Planet Money is the calm, professional narration. It tells you more than you really need to know and gives you cause to worry about things that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/steady-as-she-goes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">steady as she goes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[209,152,210,28],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-layoffs","tag-microsoft","tag-planet-money","tag-the-grind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}