{"id":153698,"date":"2023-01-05T18:07:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T02:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=153698"},"modified":"2023-01-05T18:07:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T02:07:45","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-king-c-gillette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=153698","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from King C. Gillette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A friend of mine asked why I could not invent something that everybody would use and throw away afterwards, and then come back for more. Except pins, I could think of nothing. The next day I dropped my razor and damaged the edge. Then the idea came.&#8221; ~ King Camp Gillette January 5, 1855 \u2013 July 9, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.&#8221; ~ King Camp Gillette January 5, 1855 \u2013 July 9, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every individual\u2026 is absolute master of his own destiny, his progress being limited only by his ambition and intelligence.&#8221; ~ King Camp Gillette January 5, 1855 \u2013 July 9, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any system is wrong which permits individuals to be born to a life of non-productiveness.&#8221; ~ King Camp Gillette January 5, 1855 \u2013 July 9, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A man cannot live without labor, except he live on the labor of others.&#8221; ~ King Camp Gillette January 5, 1855 \u2013 July 9, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You cannot benefit the poor without benefiting the rich.&#8221; ~ King Camp Gillette January 5, 1855 \u2013 July 9, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t know enough to quit.&#8221; ~ King Camp Gillette January 5, 1855 \u2013 July 9, 1932<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King_C._Gillette\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-King_Camp_Gillette.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-153701\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A friend of mine asked why I could not invent something that everybody would use and throw away afterwards, and then come back for more. Except pins, I could think of nothing. The next day I dropped my razor and damaged the edge. Then the idea came.&#8221; ~ King Camp Gillette January 5, 1855 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","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":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-King_Camp_Gillette.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153702,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153698\/revisions\/153702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}