{"id":1768,"date":"2008-01-23T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2015-03-19T20:26:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T03:26:27","slug":"may-i-introduce-you-to-a-banker-with-balls-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1768","title":{"rendered":"May I introduce you to a Banker With Balls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and conference colleague Jurie Pieterse, who is Head of Marketing Communications at ING Direct (US) has started a blog called Banker With Balls.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how he describes the name in his inaugural post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With balls&#8221; &#8211; other than to infer some gutsiness &#8211; is a reference to where I work at the bank who loves orange balls: ING DIRECT&#8230; I&#8217;ll try to keep it balanced, but remember that I am passionate about my marketing work for ING DIRECT so that will likely come through.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I look forward to reading Jurie&#8217;s musings and opinions about marketing for a big, but untraditional FI. Having had the privilege of hearing him speak at two conferences, including the current Net.Finance where I&#8217;m writing this from, he has enough experience to be someone I can really learn from.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a link to his feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and conference colleague Jurie Pieterse, who is Head of Marketing Communications at ING Direct (US) has started a blog called Banker With Balls. Here&#8217;s how he describes the name in his inaugural post: &#8220;With balls&#8221; &#8211; other than to infer some gutsiness &#8211; is a reference to where I work at the bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,32],"tags":[185,191,119],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-blogging","tag-banking","tag-blogging","tag-netfinance"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-sw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}