{"id":64,"date":"2009-03-04T18:15:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=64"},"modified":"2009-03-04T18:20:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:20:47","slug":"wall-street-on-the-tundra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2009\/03\/04\/wall-street-on-the-tundra\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street on the Tundra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lewis interviewing an Icelandic fisherman turned failed banker:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou spent seven years learning every little nuance of the fishing trade before you were granted the gift of learning from this great captain?\u201d I ask.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd even then you had to sit at the feet of this great master for many months before you felt as if you knew what you were doing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why did you think you could become a banker and speculate in financial markets, without a day of training?\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2009\/04\/iceland200904?printable=true&#038;currentPage=all\">Frozen Assets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lewis interviewing an Icelandic fisherman turned failed banker: \u201cYou spent seven years learning every little nuance of the fishing trade before you were granted the gift of learning from this great captain?\u201d I ask. \u201cYes.\u201d \u201cAnd even then you had to sit at the feet of this great master for many months before you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}