{"id":882,"date":"2004-05-02T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=882"},"modified":"2018-08-14T07:13:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:13:54","slug":"882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/02\/882\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Says Finance Is Boring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years ago, I invested in some IBI (Intimate Brands, Incorporated), which was Victoria&#8217;s Secret.  I liked it so much, I bought into the company, werd.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s part of LTD (Limited Brands), but I am still enthusiastic about the company.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, dammit, man, they put <i><b>pictures of women wearing lingerie into the annual report!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I think there&#8217;s numbers and stuff in it, too, between the pictures.  Some words, too, but hey!  Tyra Banks!<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Updated:<\/b>  I originally wrote <i>women wearing lingerie into the annual report<\/i> and have amended it to acknowledge it&#8217;s really only pictures thereof.  Heaven knows, I would have gotten into trouble with the SEC, not to mention my wife, were I to insinuate LTD sends actual models to its stockholders.  Thank you, that is all.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years ago, I invested in some IBI (Intimate Brands, Incorporated), which was Victoria&#8217;s Secret. I liked it so much, I bought into the company, werd. Now it&#8217;s part of LTD (Limited Brands), but I am still enthusiastic about the company. I mean, dammit, man, they put pictures of women wearing lingerie into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23395,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/23395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}