{"id":450,"date":"2017-10-11T09:43:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T15:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekerman.com\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2017-10-11T09:44:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T15:44:28","slug":"swag-or-no-swag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekerman.com\/blog\/swag-or-no-swag\/","title":{"rendered":"Swag or No Swag?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I opened my desk drawer this morning and realized something: Every year at bbcon I scoop up swag like Homer Simpson at a doughnut shop.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-452\" src=\"http:\/\/bekerman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/swag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My drawer is filled with branded pens, post-its, breath mints, and weird squishy things shaped like ducks, stars and earth (is &#8220;earth&#8221; a shape?). All of it untouched and gathering dust since schlepping it back from bbcon. For every piece of swag I still have I&#8217;m sure there are at least three more that went directly in the trash upon returning home from the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Not this year. This year swag needs to answer a few questions before I put it in my bag.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do I already have 100 of them in my office?\n<ul>\n<li>No pens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Can I eat it?\n<ul>\n<li>If I can eat it I&#8217;ll take it (duh!), as long as the packaging can be recycled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Can I wear it?\n<ul>\n<li>The real question is <em>will<\/em> I wear it?<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I opened my desk drawer this morning and realized something: Every year at bbcon I scoop up swag like Homer Simpson at a doughnut shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekerman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekerman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekerman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekerman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekerman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bekerman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"http:\/\/bekerman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekerman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekerman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekerman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}