{"id":158925,"date":"2023-04-18T10:29:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=158925"},"modified":"2023-04-18T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:41:33","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-j-p-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=158925","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from J. P. Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hartford, CT&#8230;John Pierpont Morgan Sr. April 17, 1837 \u2013 March 31, 1913 The father of modern finance &amp; banking. His firm helped provide the capital as the US Economy became the largest in the world. His power was such at its zenith that he and a group of bankers actually saved the US monetary system from collapsing in 1907.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._P._Morgan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-158928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/220px-JohnPierpontMorgan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you&#8217;ll be able to see farther.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you have to ask how much it costs, you can&#8217;t afford it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartford, CT&#8230;John Pierpont Morgan Sr. April 17, 1837 \u2013 March 31, 1913 The father of modern finance &amp; banking. His firm helped provide the capital as the US Economy became the largest in the world. His power was such at its zenith that he and a group of bankers actually saved the US monetary system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158928,"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-158925","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\/04\/220px-JohnPierpontMorgan.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158925","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=158925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158930,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158925\/revisions\/158930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}