{"id":3931,"date":"2008-08-16T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T21:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2008-08-16T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T22:14:35","slug":"paradise-lost-or-how-serving-up-cake-can-kill-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3931\/paradise-lost-or-how-serving-up-cake-can-kill-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise lost. Or, how serving up cake can kill you."},"content":{"rendered":"

Owners, brokers, exalted ones lend me your ear!<\/strong> Today is the day to become students of history. To learn from mistakes made in the past. Does the royal library lack history books? Send out the servants to fetch them! The servants are busy on other important affairs of state? Perhaps, while exhausting yourself with strenuous retail therapy or the daunting task of where to holiday next, you could swing the golden carriage by the Barnes & Noble bookery? It will only take a minute, Sire. Books written about the French Revolution or the American Revolution would be a good place for his Highness to begin. <\/p>\n

Why such laborious reading?<\/strong> Sire, those who don\u2019t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who can\u2019t read the writing on the walls are likely to wake up from their feathered pillows and find that neighboring brokerages have raided their precious little kingdoms. They will find themselves oblivious to the fact that their former citizens voluntarily renounced the crown and ever so enthusiastically swore allegiance to their new brokerage.<\/p>\n

Surely I must jest?<\/strong> Certainly not! The people are tired. The people are hungry. The people are overworked and underappreciated. The people are frustrated with being asked to wait weeks to receive their commissions from the Royal Treasury. The people moan at their deprived conditions while you bask in your splendor. The people are growing deaf from all the lip service uttered from the Throne. Bothered by all the pretty windowdressing that brought them here but window shopping is as close as they are allowed to come. Outsiders looking in… <\/p>\n

They demand action!<\/strong> They long to see a plan. They want to witness improvements made to the Kingdom. Fortifications made to protect them from outside forces hell-bent on plundering their farms and territories. Training to help them embrace changing times and rapidly evolving technologies. But, most of all they want to know that you actually care about their wellbeing more than prancing in your fancy robes at Court like a peacock strutting around the barnyard.<\/p>\n

Who can you learn from in order to right the Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Owners, brokers, exalted ones lend me your ear! Today is the day to become students of history. To learn from mistakes made in the past. Does the royal library lack history books? Send out the servants to fetch them! The servants are busy on other important affairs of state? 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