{"id":59,"date":"2006-05-24T21:41:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T05:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hongyu.org\/wordpress\/?p=59"},"modified":"2006-05-24T21:41:40","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T05:41:40","slug":"rags-to-riches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongyu.org\/wordpress\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Rags to Riches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money.<\/p>\n<p>The old guy fingered his worsted wool vest and said, &#8220;Well, son, it was<br \/>\n1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing<br \/>\nthe apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next morning, I invested those ten cents in two apples. I spent<br \/>\nthe entire day polishing them and sold them at 5:00 pm for 20 cents. I<br \/>\ncontinued this system for a month, by the end of which I&#8217;d accumulated<br \/>\na<br \/>\nfortune of $1.37.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then my wife&#8217;s father died and left us two million dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money. The old guy fingered his worsted wool vest and said, &#8220;Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel. &#8220;I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongyu.org\/wordpress\/?p=59\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rags to Riches&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongyu.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongyu.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongyu.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongyu.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongyu.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongyu.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongyu.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongyu.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongyu.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}