{"id":622,"date":"2009-04-22T07:23:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T06:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pouringbeans.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2009-04-22T07:24:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T06:24:24","slug":"the-not-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"The Not Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Not Report was not an idea by Christopher J Marshall and written by Ian P McIver from a task created by Christopher J Marshall during a conversation with Ian P McIver.<\/p>\n<p>You will not get the chance to read about my fruitless efforts at trying to get a new life in the space of a few days, nor will you see the whole thing set out in a pleasing format.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"EC_EC_Apple-style-span\" style=\"word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Verdana; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate;\">Date: 20th April 2009<br \/>\nSubject: The Not Report<br \/>\nWriter: Ian &#8220;Mac Mac Mac Mac&#8221; McIver<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Not Report<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Assignment: To try and get a new job and a new girlfriend by close of business on 20th April 2009.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nEquipment: One not attractive nor interesting twenty-five year old man, not a whole world out there waiting to be infiltrated by a budding singleton and not the population of Newcastle.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMethod: The acquisition of a new life (those parts being further employment and a &#8220;better half&#8221;.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nReport: Upon receipt of the initial instructions I did not take it upon myself to set out the goals that I was trying to achieve. As well as this I did not take the time to spend any time looking in the right places for love that generally include local bars, pubs and dating websites. After the first day I did not think about what I was trying to do. After the second day I also did not think about what I was trying to do. Approaching the end of the weekend I did not actually leave the house other than to take my respective son, aka The Chop, back to his proper home over in Throckley.<span class=\"EC_EC_Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAt the beginning of today I did not check any job websites nor obtain the jobs paper that is issued weekly on a Thursday in the Tyne and Wear area.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs a result of this it appears as though I not only did not get the new job I was hoping for but I am not attached, nor in a relationship with, nor have any prospects with the opposite sex.<span class=\"EC_EC_Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHere is a collection of photos I did not take to further explain my predicament.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nConclusion: Not doing things is not the right way to go about problems.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Not Report was not an idea by Christopher J Marshall and written by Ian P McIver from a task created by Christopher J Marshall during a conversation with Ian P McIver. You will not get the chance to read about my fruitless efforts at trying to get a new life in the space of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ian","category-look-at-this","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}