{"id":1919,"date":"2012-08-08T07:21:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T05:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2012-08-08T15:26:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T13:26:42","slug":"a-true-visionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1919","title":{"rendered":"A true visionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t invent iron ore and blast furnaces, did he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRearden. He didn\u2019t invent smelting and chemistry and air  compression. He couldn\u2019t have invented his Metal but for thousands and  thousands of other people. His Metal! Why does he think it\u2019s his? Why  does he think it\u2019s his invention? Everybody uses the work of everybody  else. Nobody ever invents anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Ayn Rand, 1957<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.  There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to  create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you  to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you\u2019ve got a  business, you didn\u2019t build that. Somebody else made that happen,The  Internet didn\u2019t get invented on its own.\u00a0 Government research created  the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the  Internet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/president-obama-if-youve-got-a-business-you-didnt-build-that-somebody-else-made-that-happen\/\">Barack Obama, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s been too long since I&#8217;ve waded through <em>Atlas Shrugged<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for jogging the memory, <a href=\"http:\/\/injennifershead.com\/\">Jennifer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t invent iron ore and blast furnaces, did he?\u201d \u201cWho?\u201d \u201cRearden. He didn\u2019t invent smelting and chemistry and air compression. He couldn\u2019t have invented his Metal but for thousands and thousands of other people. His Metal! Why does he think it\u2019s his? Why does he think it\u2019s his invention? Everybody uses the work of everybody else. Nobody ever invents anything.\u201d &#8212; Ayn Rand, 1957 If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}