{"id":1870,"date":"2007-08-30T15:29:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T22:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2007-09-15T10:27:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T17:27:29","slug":"burn-down-the-mission-elton-john-reads-the-tumbleweed-manifesto-to-the-national-association-of-realtors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1870\/burn-down-the-mission-elton-john-reads-the-tumbleweed-manifesto-to-the-national-association-of-realtors\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn Down the Mission: Elton John reads the Tumbleweed Manifesto to the National Association of Realtors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll have more later, but of all the many reasons the NAR deserves to be disintermediated, perhaps the simplest and most obvious is that these congenital retards cannot catch the frolickin&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0738204315\" target=\"_blank\">Cluetrain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/539P1lTZWhc\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/><b>More viewpoints, pro and con, on supplanting the NAR:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n< ?php c2c_get_recent_posts(9999, \"\n\n<li>%post_URL%&#8221;, &#8217;30&#8217;); ?>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/disintermediation\" rel=\"tag\">disintermediation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll have more later, but of all the many reasons the NAR deserves to be disintermediated, perhaps the simplest and most obvious is that these congenital retards cannot catch the frolickin&#8217; Cluetrain. \u00a0More viewpoints, pro and con, on supplanting the NAR: < ?php c2c_get_recent_posts(9999, \" %post_URL%&#8221;, &#8217;30&#8217;); ?> Technorati Tags: disintermediation, real estate, real estate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[6,5,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-supplanting-the-nar","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1869,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1869\/supplanting-the-national-association-of-realtors-will-turn-it-into-a-toothless-vampire-overnight\/","url_meta":{"origin":1870,"position":0},"title":"Supplanting the National Association of Realtors will turn it into a toothless vampire overnight","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The Minnesota Association of Realtors went on another foot-shooting expedition yesterday, again calling for paid-up members of the statewide trade group to quit the business so other paid-up members can earn more money. 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