{"id":976,"date":"2012-05-08T11:46:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T11:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=976"},"modified":"2012-05-08T11:46:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T11:46:59","slug":"glimpse-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/08\/glimpse-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Glimpse of the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How top executives live (Fortune, 1955)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com\/2012\/05\/06\/classic-top-500-executives\/?section=magazines_fortune\">http:\/\/features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com\/2012\/05\/06\/classic-top-500-executives\/?section=magazines_fortune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t finish reading it, but thought it was worth passing along to my reader(s).  It is an interesting glimpse into the life of executives a half century ago.  What is even more interesting is when they compare and contrast with the life of executives 30-40 years previous, before the crash:  LOTS of parallels with our current society, which is just more fuel for the fire of apocalypse.  I suppose it does give me a small amount of hope that perhaps we can get through this period and into a more sane world, but it seems, according to my reading, that our nation had to live through a period of 20-25 years of fairly substantial privation that was pretty much only relieved by WWII, so repeating that pattern isn&#8217;t something that fills me with joys of anticipation.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t shake the conviction that life is going to get really sucky before it has any chance of getting better and I also am stuck with the worry that I won&#8217;t be able to take the requisite efforts to prepare, so instead of blissful ignorance leading to the bitch slap of the ice cold fish, I will be cringing in anticipation the whole time.  Anticipation is the worst!  Give me blissful ignorance instead!  Why can&#8217;t I be one of the manifold sheeple and live a fantasy life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How top executives live (Fortune, 1955) http:\/\/features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com\/2012\/05\/06\/classic-top-500-executives\/?section=magazines_fortune I didn&#8217;t finish reading it, but thought it was worth passing along to my reader(s). It is an interesting glimpse into the life of executives a half century ago. What is even more interesting is when they compare and contrast with the life of executives 30-40 years previous, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/08\/glimpse-of-the-past\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glimpse of the past&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}