{"id":177272,"date":"2019-11-06T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/06\/tweet-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:45:00","slug":"tweet-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/06\/tweet-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Taavi Kotka , former CIO of Estonia, on the low \u00a3100m price tag for being the most tech-savvy government in the world: \u201cIf you don\u2019t use Accenture or McKinsey, you\u2019d be amazed at what you can get done.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Philip Salter (@Philip_Salter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Philip_Salter\/status\/1191412809340530690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The point is a valid one.<\/p>\n<p>The fixation that governments have on outsourcing and consultants serves primarily to increase cost and to reduce effectiveness of government programs.<\/p>\n<p>Just look at the Obamacare website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taavi Kotka , former CIO of Estonia, on the low \u00a3100m price tag for being the most tech-savvy government in the world: \u201cIf you don\u2019t use Accenture or McKinsey, you\u2019d be amazed at what you can get done.\u201d \u2014 Philip Salter (@Philip_Salter) November 4, 2019 The point is a valid one. The fixation that governments &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[631,464,367,390],"class_list":["post-177272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-consultants","tag-good-writing","tag-internet","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}