{"id":1242,"date":"2016-04-09T12:43:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2016-04-09T12:43:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T17:43:49","slug":"april-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"April &#8220;Fools?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/chiquita-dm2-minion-jerry-tongue.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1246\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1246\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/chiquita-dm2-minion-jerry-tongue-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"chiquita-dm2-minion-jerry-tongue\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/chiquita-dm2-minion-jerry-tongue-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/chiquita-dm2-minion-jerry-tongue.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Did you get a minion mic drop in your inbox this April Fools? \u00a0Google&#8217;s famous elaborate April Fool&#8217;s pranks may have finally gone too far. \u00a0This year, the idea was that you could select the &#8220;Mic drop&#8221; button on Gmail and send a .gif of a minion dropping a realistic mic. \u00a0After sending, no other replies from that mail stream would come back to you. \u00a0Conversation over, the end. \u00a0What an amazing way to handle a never ending work email, right? \u00a0Turns out that the &#8220;Mic drop&#8221; button was a little too close to the send button, causing quite a few misfires to clients and bosses. \u00a0Oops. \u00a0After a myriad of complaints on their Google forum, the button was removed and an apology issued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What do you think? \u00a0Did they go too far or do we all take ourselves just a little too seriously in this day and age of electronic communication?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/02\/technology\/april-fools-undo-gmail-removes-its-mic-drop-feature.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Fashion%20%26%20Style&amp;module=Trending&amp;version=Full&amp;region=Marginalia&amp;pgtype=article\"><strong>April Fools\u2019 Undo: Gmail Removes Its \u2018Mic Drop\u2019 Feature<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you get a minion mic drop in your inbox this April Fools? \u00a0Google&#8217;s famous elaborate April Fool&#8217;s pranks may have finally gone too far. \u00a0This year, the idea was that you could select the &#8220;Mic drop&#8221; button on Gmail and send a .gif of a minion dropping a realistic mic. \u00a0After sending, no other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1242\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April &#8220;Fools?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[605,608,607,610,609,606,604,603,602],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-income-tax","tag-april-fools","tag-bosses","tag-clients","tag-electronic-communication","tag-email","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-mic-drop","tag-minion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}