{"id":13024,"date":"2017-07-02T14:19:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T19:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=13024"},"modified":"2017-07-02T14:20:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T19:20:58","slug":"inspirational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/02\/inspirational\/","title":{"rendered":"inspirational"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>from jim goode’s obituary<\/a> (not the most eloquent but the story is good):<\/p>\n

In 1977, he went into the local BBQ joint once known as BBQ Barn on Kirby and sat with a beer watching the employees being lazy in the kitchen. The place was empty and the lady behind the register asked him what he was doing. He said he was thinking of opening a BBQ place and she responded that it was a bad idea and that she hated the BBQ business but it had been her husband’s passion, and he had left it to her after his death. She said she couldn’t wait to get out of that business. So, in his typical way, he casually asked her how much she’d take for the place. She replied, “How much have you got?” He said he had $3000 in savings and was waiting to get paid for an art job that he’d done designing the logo for Joske’s Department Store, which would be another $3000. She told him to be there the next day with his $3000 in savings and she’d give him the keys and he could just send her the rest of the money when he got the check from Joske’s.<\/p>\n

That was the beginning of Goode Company Restaurants<\/a>, his life’s dream and his life’s work. That next day he got to work with the help of his family and friends cleaning and painting the place to be ready to open in a few days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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from jim goode’s obituary (not the most eloquent but the story is good): In 1977, he went into the local BBQ joint once known as BBQ Barn on Kirby and sat with a beer watching the employees being lazy in the kitchen. The place was empty and the lady behind the register asked him what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13027,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024\/revisions\/13027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}