{"id":183,"date":"2002-01-08T00:03:04","date_gmt":"2002-01-08T00:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2002-01-08T00:03:04","modified_gmt":"2002-01-08T00:03:04","slug":"20020108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2002\/01\/08\/20020108\/","title":{"rendered":"2002\/01\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New on the Fog Creek web site: <A href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcreek.com\/CityDesk\/fog0000000068.html\">CityDesk for Geeks<\/A>.<BR><BR> <CENTER> <TABLE> <CAPTION align=bottom><FONT size=2>Dave Thomas 1932-2002<\/FONT><\/CAPTION> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <CENTER><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"174\" alt=\"Dave Thomas\" hspace=4 src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/01\/daveThomas.jpg?resize=163%2C174&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"163\" border=0><\/CENTER><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/CENTER> <P>Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy&#8217;s,&nbsp;passed away today. Appearing in hundreds of commercials, he gave&nbsp;his hamburger&nbsp;chain a friendly, down-home feel.&nbsp;&#8220;Mr. Thomas came to stand for the products he peddled because he was perceived as standing behind them, as if a curious customer could peek inside the kitchen at a Wendy&#8217;s restaurant and perhaps find Mr. Thomas keeping a watchful eye on the cook at the grill,&#8221; wrote <A href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/01\/09\/business\/media\/09ADCO.html\">Stuart Elliot<\/A>&nbsp;in the New York Times. He taught us that nobody, given the choice, prefers to buy from a faceless megacorporation.<BR><BR><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New on the Fog Creek web site: CityDesk for Geeks. Dave Thomas 1932-2002 Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy&#8217;s,&nbsp;passed away today. Appearing in hundreds of commercials, he&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2002\/01\/08\/20020108\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;2002\/01\/08&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s83KNI-20020108","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}