{"id":32617,"date":"2016-07-12T10:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T14:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=32617"},"modified":"2016-07-12T10:07:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T14:07:31","slug":"yeah-i-blew-it-71216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/12\/yeah-i-blew-it-71216\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, I Blew It. (7\/12\/16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We make mistakes. Everybody does. It happens. But SouthsideCentral is going to come out first and admit it, then I&#8217;m going to\u00a0 apologize for it in public. It&#8217;s the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s job announcement wasn&#8217;t the big Berry Hill Industrial Park precision machining plant for a Rolls-Royce supplier. That announcement will be coming, but it didn&#8217;t come today. I blew it. But that&#8217;s not excuse for my mistake. 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