{"id":967,"date":"2006-11-12T23:39:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2006-11-13T11:58:20","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T03:58:20","slug":"963-of-meeting-nyt-columnist-and-pulitzer-prize-winner-thomas-friedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"[963] Of meeting NYT columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alright. It wasn’t me that met Thomas Friedman<\/a>. Rather, it was two of my Michigan friends whom are currently based in Beijing. One of the two friends sent a few photos over to me just to make me jealous.<\/p>\n

So, this is Friedman signing a book:<\/p>\n

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Yes. That’s Friedman. And nope. I’m not jealous.<\/p>\n

And this is the two friends in the picture<\/strike>. This is a photo with a friend and Friedman in it. This is just to prove that he and she really met Friedman and the picture was not picked up from somewhere…<\/p>\n

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If that isn’t enough (still not jealous)…<\/p>\n

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She got her copy signed. And mine is not!<\/p>\n

And also, one of the two friends (as he insists, he’s not in the picture) gave his business card to Friedman!<\/p>\n

Alright! Alright! I admit it. I’m seriously jealous!<\/p>\n

Also, according to the friend, he paraphrased it I suppose, he had a conversation with Friedman:<\/p>\n

“Sir, you wrote about my company, [name withheld]<\/em>, in your book. I am actually here in China to set up the same operation like the one in Bangalore”.<\/p>\n

He looked up and say “That’s great”.<\/p>\n

“Yeah… I guess I am doing a really good job… So now my colleagues back in Singapore may get fired sooner than scheduled….”<\/p>\n

TF: “I am sorry to hear that…. but it’s really interesting…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alright. It wasn’t me that met Thomas Friedman. Rather, it was two of my Michigan friends whom are currently based in Beijing. One of the two friends sent a few photos over to me just to make me jealous. So, this is Friedman signing a book: Yes. That’s Friedman. And nope. I’m not jealous. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-printed-materials","category-personal","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}