{"id":316,"date":"2011-03-24T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:55:52","slug":"fifth-times-still-the-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/fifth-times-still-the-charm\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Time&#8217;s Still the Charm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Just shy of one year ago, my friend Vlad was getting married and told me Backblaze had saved him losing his mind <a href=\"\/blog\/backblaze-saves-a-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the night before his wedding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago he and his wife Jamie posted this exchange on my Facebook page:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blog-Vlad-Jamie-FB-post.jpg\" alt=\"Vlad-and-Jamie-FB-post\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Five times in one year? Cosmic rays? Aliens attacking the hard drives?<\/p>\n<p>Either way, glad we could be there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just shy of one year ago, my friend Vlad was getting married and told me Backblaze had saved him losing his mind the night before his wedding. A few days ago he and his wife Jamie posted this exchange on my Facebook page: Five times in one year? Cosmic rays? Aliens attacking the hard drives?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/fifth-times-still-the-charm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fifth Time&#8217;s Still the Charm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[131,10,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backblaze-bits","category-backblaze-fun","category-customer-stories","category-kudos","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Celebrating Our 5th Consecutive Win as a Best Place to Work<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Just shy of one year ago, my friend Vlad was getting married and told me Backblaze had saved him losing his mind the night before his wedding. 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