{"id":71,"date":"2004-02-14T08:26:42","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T13:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=71"},"modified":"2004-02-14T08:26:42","modified_gmt":"2004-02-14T13:26:42","slug":"retreat-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Retreat in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I have a company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capecoder.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, I receive solicitations from time to time from overseas outsourcing companies, mostly from India and Russia.<br \/>\nOne particularly assertive individual has emailed me several times, asking if I have an assignment which I&#8217;d consider throwing in his direction.<br \/>\nOut of curiosity, I started corresponding with him, starting with a few generic questions about the type of projects he&#8217;s worked on, and ending with a serious request for proposal.<br \/>\nThe results were interesting.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nI have no idea of the age of this gentleman, his professional experience, or even where he lives &#8211; he&#8217;s provided no company website or even an address, just a home office phone number.<br \/>\nStill, after getting basic information about his charges and receiving a sample functional spec, which was very well done, I decided to follow on with the following questions, which would be standard for hiring a technical contractor either here or overseas:<br \/>\n&#8211; Do you contract for projects less than a month?<br \/>\n&#8211; I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I have a company website, I receive solicitations from time to time from overseas outsourcing companies, mostly from India and Russia. One particularly assertive individual has emailed me several times, asking if I have an assignment which I&#8217;d consider &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=71\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}