{"id":540,"date":"2009-02-09T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=540"},"modified":"2009-02-09T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T16:06:00","slug":"how-to-be-a-successful-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"How to be a successful business!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten my heating oil from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lorden.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lorden Oil Company, Inc<\/a>. since I moved to Pepperell in 1989. They&#8217;ve always been pretty good to me. When I really had some budget crunches over the years, they accepted partial payments without any penalties or questions asked.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I was doing some number-crunching with my heating oil use, and I wanted to get &#8220;degree day&#8221; information to compare against use, so I could determine whether turning down my thermostat, or burning more fires, had a real benefit. Those used to be printed on my heating oil invoices, but since Lorden&#8217;s streamlined its bills, that information is no longer on each invoice.<\/p>\n<p>So, I called Lorden Oil to ask them where they got that data for their own use, so I could look it up. The office support person I spoke to was very friendly, took my phone number, and said she&#8217;d &#8220;ask one of the managers&#8221; and have someone call me back.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get a call back and I got involved with other things. Today, there was a fat envelope from Lorden Oil in my post box.<\/p>\n<p>When I opened it up, it contained photocopies of all my bills going back to 1996, with a hand-written note, &#8220;This is a copy of our deliveries to you. This shows the degree days. Hope this helps!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now THAT&#8217;S service. Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten my heating oil from Lorden Oil Company, Inc. since I moved to Pepperell in 1989. They&#8217;ve always been pretty good to me. When I really had some budget crunches over the years, they accepted partial payments without any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}