{"id":7794,"date":"2013-11-22T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=7794"},"modified":"2013-11-22T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:00:33","slug":"ben-scentle-and-the-wineries-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/ben-scentle-and-the-wineries-of-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Scentle And The Wineries Of Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday I did some righteous wine tasting.<\/p>\n<p>I was with my droogs Trevor Mauch (my biz partner in a local marketing consulting firm) and ex-Agora copywriting bad ass Ryan Fletcher (who wrote an ad that raked in over $15 million they at first refused to even test) who was visiting us in The Burgle.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s harvest time at ye olde wineries.<\/p>\n<p>And, with harvest comes fruit flies.<\/p>\n<p>LOTS of fruit flies.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think they spontaneously materialize out of some weird pocket dimension, as the second a bottle is opened or uncorked&#8230; there they is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And, they looooove them some Ben.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like I&#8217;m doomed to be swarmed by the little bastards.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know!<\/p>\n<p>But on Wednesday I took a chick to the same two wineries Trevor and Ryan and I went to yesterday, and even she noticed the fruit flies seem to be especially attracted to me.<\/p>\n<p>I joked maybe it&#8217;s some kind of pheromone?<\/p>\n<p>You know&#8230; maybe they dig my scent?<\/p>\n<p>(Ben Scentle?)<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is, they like hovering around me.<\/p>\n<p>And, I&#8217;m constantly fighting them off.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, what&#8217;s the point of all this?<\/p>\n<p>Probably, there isn&#8217;t one.<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to share it with you.<\/p>\n<p>Give you a glimpse into my life.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, &#8220;bond&#8221; with you more as a result.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I teach in &#8220;Email Players&#8221;, after all. And, letting people get a glimpse of your life, your thoughts, your attitudes and your philosophies is part of the &#8220;Email Players&#8221; newsletter system.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s what&#8217;ll separate you from the lesser mortals.<\/p>\n<p>And, put more sales in your hot little hand.<\/p>\n<p>Subscription info here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday I did some righteous wine tasting. I was with my droogs Trevor Mauch (my biz partner in a local marketing consulting firm) and ex-Agora copywriting bad ass Ryan Fletcher (who wrote an ad that raked in over $15 million they at first refused to even test) who was visiting us in The Burgle. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}