{"id":4456,"date":"2016-07-07T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2016-07-07T09:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:38:06","slug":"and-you-thought-your-job-was-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/and-you-thought-your-job-was-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"And you thought your job was hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama will soon be Former-President Obama and he&#8217;s looking for a new job. Running a country is a lot like running a company, but with less hostility.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2016-obama-anti-business-president\/\">Obama told Bloomberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Now, I&#8217;m always careful about drawing too many easy parallels there, because sometimes there are CEOs who come in and start explaining to me how I should be running the presidency. And I sometimes have to stop them and say, &#8216;All right. One, I appreciate your advice. But imagine a situation in which half your board and management were actively trying to get rid of you and prevent you from accomplishing anything. And you had 2 million employees, and you couldn&#8217;t fire a large portion of them. And your competitors weren&#8217;t simply promoting their own products, but were continually saying how your products were the worst that were ever invented and will cause a civilizational crisis. If you pull that all together, then you&#8217;ve got about half of what I&#8217;m dealing with on a daily basis.'&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama will soon be Former-President Obama and he&#8217;s looking for a new job. Running a country is a lot like running a company, but with less hostility. Obama told Bloomberg: &#8220;Now, I&#8217;m always careful about drawing too many easy parallels there, because sometimes there are CEOs who come in and start explaining to me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - And you thought your job was hard","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[286],"tags":[876,848,1077,1076],"class_list":["post-4456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-shared","tag-obama","tag-president","tag-running-a-country","tag-vc","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4503,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/4503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}