{"id":1826,"date":"2008-07-18T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2025-09-21T11:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:42:55","slug":"my-friend-gene-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1826","title":{"rendered":"My friend Gene."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I’m a big fan of GonzoBanker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I first started working at Vancity, I was brand new to financial services and started looking at industry websites to help orient and ground me in my new job.<\/p>\n

I quickly came across GonzoBanker, and it is now one of the only leftovers from those early days of bookmarking. Their irreverent coverage of how IT issues can aid and hinder financial institutions is both useful and entertaining.<\/p>\n

So today, I was thrilled to see that they named my friend Gene Blishen as their GonzoBanker of the Month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gene<\/a> is my hero. He is a philosopher, humanitarian, technologist, futurist, banker and a decent, decent man. I look forward to reading his blog<\/a> whenever he updates it, and his name always comes up when the people I respect the most name the people they respect the most.<\/p>\n

It is an honour to be his direct BC credit union peer, be able to access his sage advice and plan BarCampBankBC<\/a> with him.<\/p>\n

So congrats Gene. Well deserved!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a big fan of GonzoBanker. When I first started working at Vancity, I was brand new to financial services and started looking at industry websites to help orient and ground me in my new job. I quickly came across GonzoBanker, and it is now one of the only leftovers from those early days of […]<\/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":[86,31,40,16],"tags":[225,190,130,195,182],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barcampbankbc","category-credit-union","category-tinfoiling","category-vancouver","tag-barcampbankbc","tag-credit-union","tag-gonzobanker","tag-tinfoiling","tag-vancouver"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-ts","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","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=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16817,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/16817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}