{"id":10786,"date":"2017-06-26T05:57:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T12:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=10786"},"modified":"2017-06-25T11:17:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T18:17:48","slug":"weekly-maxim-june-26-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=10786","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Maxim June 26, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=10787#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10787\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10787\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=10787\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2710.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4032,3024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 7 Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1498387109&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.99&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.090909090909091&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2710\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2710.jpg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10787\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2710.jpg?resize=293%2C220\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2710.jpg?w=4032&amp;ssl=1 4032w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2710.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2710.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2710.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2710.jpg?resize=250%2C188&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2710.jpg?resize=900%2C675&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2710.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2710.jpg?w=2100&amp;ssl=1 2100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;To make ideas your own you have to grapple with them.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Hamilton_Institute\">Modern Business Course of the Alexander Hamilton Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1944 Edition Guidebook<\/p>\n<p>Bonus quote: &#8220;Reading in itself is worth little unless you get ideas from it that broaden your viewpoint or that can be put to some practical use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Modern Business Course was a correspondence learning program sold in the USA and the UK from the 1909 to the 1980&#8217;s. The small books on topics like Credit and Collections and Factory Management were written by retired professors from leading universities. The project was lead by Joseph French Johnson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To make ideas your own you have to grapple with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-maxim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2710.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2NY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10788,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10786\/revisions\/10788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}