{"id":14060,"date":"2018-01-29T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com\/?p=14060"},"modified":"2018-01-28T22:29:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T03:29:52","slug":"sweet-potatoes-can-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/personal\/sweet-potatoes-can-know.html","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Potatoes, Can I Know You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, this is one of the many things that I have been planning on doing but yet to do. However, in this 2018 that we have entered, I am ready to cross things off my list. The title of this post is a play on how Nigerian interviewers start their interviews by asking the interviewee, <em>&#8220;Can we know you?&#8221;<\/em> So in my case, I&#8217;d like to know you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14062\" src=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Example-of-sweet-potato.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet Potato - Verastic\" width=\"900\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Example-of-sweet-potato.jpg 900w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Example-of-sweet-potato-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Example-of-sweet-potato-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here&#8217;s the idea: I have been blogging for years, and you know so much about me. I have shared so much of my life with you that I sometimes don&#8217;t remember what I have shared or not shared. So many of you come here and leave comments to laugh with me or encourage me, and I am so appreciative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, I want to get to know you. Beyond the comments that you leave here and beyond your comments on social media and your emails and everything else, I&#8217;d like to get to know you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s very simple: send me a direct email to hello at verastic.com and we&#8217;ll take it from there. I&#8217;ll need your picture and some details from you. I just want to get to know you, that&#8217;s all. Shall we call it the Sweet Potato Files?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this is one of the many things that I have been planning on doing but yet to do. However, in this 2018 that we have entered, I am ready to cross things off my list. 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