{"id":1299,"date":"2009-08-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stonebusiness.us\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2009-08-31T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T08:00:00","slug":"august-2009-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stonebusiness.us\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"Becker’s Blog #1: The Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I probably need to give blogging a chance. Maybe early some morning I will borrow the company\u2019s laptop and go down to Panera Bread and read blogs about American Idol<\/em> or the local sports teams.<\/p>\n

With this being said, it\u2019s extremely ironic that when Stone Business<\/strong> approached me to do a monthly blog on a large stone project in Sioux Falls, S.D., we recently were awarded, I answered with a resounding \u201csure, I would love to do it!\u201d. <\/p>\n

Why spend the time and write about a stone project in Sioux Falls? It\u2019s because I have a passion for going through the experience of being part of a large stone project. I\u2019ve been through many in my 26 years in the stone business; all the projects are completely different, with many personalities involved. <\/p>\n

Our industry magazines are often full of articles about residential stone shops and quarry operations, but that\u2019s the information that sells their magazines. I have no problem with this. However, I happened to get into the industry many years before the countertop explosion of the last decade, and was exposed to commercial stone projects as both a fabricator and an installer. Even if 10 die-hard stone guys read my blog ,I would consider that a success.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll use this blog to offer monthly updates on the project. I\u2019m not being paid, nor am I asking to be paid (though there has been some talk of getting a Stone Business<\/strong> windbreaker when the last article is written). Please let me know your comments and ask any questions. I\u2019ll return them once I get the blogging thing figured out.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Joe Becker<\/a>
Twin City Tile and Marble Company
St Paul, Minn.<\/p>\n

Joe Becker has been in the natural-stone business for 26 years. He started with Cold Spring Granite as a draftsman and spent time in their stone installation and estimating departments. He is currently Vice President of St Paul, Minn.-based Twin City Tile and Marble Company and oversees their stone operations.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The word \u201cblogging\u201d still has a foreign meaning to me. I really don\u2019t read peoples blogs, as I don\u2019t spend a lot of time behind a computer screen \u2013 and blogging to me is reading updated facts on a subject peppered with a lot of opinions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1044,3728,3729,3727],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-setting-in-stone","tag-joe-becker","tag-sioux-city-sd","tag-st-paul-mn","tag-twin-city-tile-and-marble"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebusiness.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebusiness.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebusiness.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebusiness.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebusiness.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebusiness.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebusiness.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebusiness.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebusiness.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}