{"id":678,"date":"2005-01-31T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/01\/31\/the-billionaire-vs-poor-richard\/"},"modified":"2005-01-31T14:00:53","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T19:00:53","slug":"the-billionaire-vs-poor-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/678","title":{"rendered":"The Billionaire vs Poor Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0338751\/\">The Aviator<\/a> yesterday with our friends Lee and David, I was going nuts trying to think of another American who matched the personal attributes and range of talents possessed by Howard Hughes.\n<\/p>\n<p>I woke up this morning with the same riddle in my head, and then I got it!\n<\/p>\n<p>The other person in American History who best parallels the characteristics and achievements of Howard Hughes? Recognized as a leading innovator in the most popular arts and entertainment medium of his time, a known womanizer, rebel, businessman, scientist, inventor, and a technical pioneer who possessed enough daredevil in his nature to put his own life on the line when testing his concepts: Benjamin Franklin.\n<\/p>\n<p>And when you think about it, if Ben was sitting across the table from Howard, he&#8217;d likely raise and call, because his winning hand would include diplomat and statesman, having helped orchestrate the founding of the most successful system of modern government.\n<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, Howard did become a billionaire, but Old Ben kept his sanity and a glowing reputation for the balance of his life, and beyond&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing The Aviator yesterday with our friends Lee and David, I was going nuts trying to think of another American who matched the personal attributes and range of talents possessed by Howard Hughes. I woke up this morning with the same riddle in my head, and then I got it! The other person in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,22,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}