{"id":1199,"date":"2020-07-21T07:42:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T06:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2020-07-21T07:42:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T06:42:25","slug":"writers-journal-241-fried-potato-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/writers-journal-241-fried-potato-124\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers\u2019 Journal #241 \u2013 Fried Potato \u2013 124"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go and sit down there to observe the crowd.&#8221; said George, indicating an empty bench near the escalator. Malee nodded and followed George to the bench and sat down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you think of the crowd?&#8221; asked George.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Its very crowded but something is missing.&#8221; shouted Malee over the noise made by the children running around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is missing?&#8221; asked George, raising his voice as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why no music?&#8221; replied Malee. She had been thinking about it since she first come to the mall that morning. It was a brand new , sparkling clean mall but she felt something was missing. It was basically a building with shops. No souls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes. Music. Decorations too. Looks bland.&#8221; murmured George to himself. &#8220;What kind of music should be playing?&#8221; asked George again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Depends on the target customer. This mall has expensive shops but also fashion stores for youths and children at lower levels.&#8221; replied Malee, poining to crowd of children in school uniforms at lower levels across the mall. &#8220;Why not we ask them what they would like to hear by a survey? It is also a form of engaging the customers.&#8221; continued Malee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good idea. Survey. And prizes.&#8221; noted George as he took the phone from the pocket and dialed a number. &#8220;Come over to where I am now.&#8221; said George before putting the phone back.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, Malee could see the figure of the general manager running over to them in a hurry. George discussed with him the ideas proposed by Malee and the man nodded and took them down and left in a hurry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be a meeting tomorrow. Why don&#8217;t you come along? Those are your ideas anyway.&#8221; said George, turning around to Malee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Georgia.&#8221; said Malee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nevermind her. I will talk to her.&#8221; said George as he waved his hands to the objection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go and sit down there to observe the crowd.&#8221; said George, indicating an empty bench near the escalator. Malee nodded and followed George to the bench and sat down. &#8220;What do you think of the crowd?&#8221; asked George. &#8220;Its very crowded but something is missing.&#8221; shouted Malee over the noise made by the children&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-wristersjournal-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}