{"id":197841,"date":"2008-01-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/08\/xerox-is-doomed-stages-of-grief-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T11:00:00","slug":"xerox-is-doomed-stages-of-grief-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/08\/xerox-is-doomed-stages-of-grief-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Xerox is Doomed, Stages of Grief Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/01\/07\/news\/companies\/xerox_logo.ap\/index.htm\">Xerox\u00ae has unveiled a new logo<\/a>, thus they are doomed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.l.cnn.net\/money\/2008\/01\/07\/news\/companies\/xerox_logo.ap\/xerox_logo.03.jpg\" \/><br \/>For people, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model\">5 stages of grief<\/a>, particularly when one is told that they have a terminal disease:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Denial: The initial stage: &#8220;It can&#8217;t be happening.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Anger: &#8220;Why me? It&#8217;s not fair.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Bargaining: &#8220;Just let me live to see my children graduate.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Depression: &#8220;I&#8217;m so sad, why bother with anything?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Acceptance: &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be OK.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>(taken verbatim from the Wiki)<\/p>\n<p>Businesses that are are terminal go through similar stages, though there are some differences.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, there is a &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">their logo, or their name, or both<\/span>&#8221; stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears Xerox\u00ae has unveiled a new logo, thus they are doomed. For people, there are 5 stages of grief, particularly when one is told that they have a terminal disease: Denial: The initial stage: &#8220;It can&#8217;t be happening.&#8221; Anger: &#8220;Why me? It&#8217;s not fair.&#8221; Bargaining: &#8220;Just let me live to see my children graduate.&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197841"}],"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=197841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}