{"id":98,"date":"2008-09-15T07:40:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T13:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2011-09-23T21:32:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T02:32:53","slug":"1000-dollars-and-an-idea-entrepreneur-to-billionaire%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/15\/1000-dollars-and-an-idea-entrepreneur-to-billionaire%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/5525630\">1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire\u2026<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/wylysam\">Sam Wyly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"brtext_35997368\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/er\/list\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.librarything.com\/pics\/bird-tiny.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><em>This review was written for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/er\/list\">LibraryThing Early Reviewers<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sam Wyly&#8217;s book is a joy to read. Each chapter is a short story unto itself. At first I attributed my interest to the familiar places since he is a native Louisianian, but I found each of his many stories relevant and familiar. It it was a novel one could call it &#8220;a real page turner.&#8221; The only disappointment I felt was how seeing so many of the same things Wyly did, my results were so far different from his. ( <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.librarything.com\/pics\/ss8.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> )<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Wyly&#8217;s book is a joy to read. Each chapter is a short story unto itself. At first I attributed my interest to the familiar places since he is a native Louisianian, but I found each of his many stories relevant and familiar. It it was a novel one could call it &#8220;a real page turner.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[39,93,94,95,21],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-films","tag-biography","tag-business-capitalism","tag-entrepreneur","tag-finance","tag-non-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DORt-1A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}