{"id":1238,"date":"2011-06-03T11:01:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2011-06-03T11:01:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:01:27","slug":"quote-for-the-day-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2011\/06\/03\/quote-for-the-day-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as culture and politics are concerned, the important theme is long-attention-span vs. short-attention-span thinking. I&#8217;m sure that your readers can think of any number of ways in which having a longer attention span can be useful. But I&#8217;ll name one. Bankers with long attention spans don&#8217;t lend money to people who can&#8217;t pay it back. If we had more bankers who adopted a long-term view of their responsibilities, we might not be in the middle of a financial crisis that is blowing away 150-year-old investment banks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Neal Stephenson, from an interview published Sept. 22, 2008 by <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2008\/stephenson-qa-0922.html\">MIT News<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as culture and politics are concerned, the important theme is long-attention-span vs. short-attention-span thinking. I&#8217;m sure that your readers can think of any number of ways in which having a longer attention span can be useful. But I&#8217;ll &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2011\/06\/03\/quote-for-the-day-75\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}