{"id":166,"date":"2006-10-05T14:03:19","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T22:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/business-success\/heavy-machinery-fantasy-camp"},"modified":"2006-10-05T14:03:19","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T22:03:19","slug":"heavy-machinery-fantasy-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Machinery Fantasy Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is an idea I\u2019ve been tossing around for years and never did anything with.\u00a0 I mentioned it to my friend Ken G. a few days ago and he liked it so much he thought I should test it.\u00a0 So here it is: a one week camp for upper middle class men who have always wanted to drive bulldozers, backhoes and dump trucks.<\/p>\n

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The camp would be near a nice resort and would be modeled on the sports fantasy camps that are quite popular today.\u00a0 It would have instructors named Al and Bud and lunch would be served in real lunch pails.\u00a0 Swearing would be encouraged. After receiving instruction everybody would be able to operate all of the equipment.\u00a0 There might be a simulator for training.<\/p>\n

The cost would be high probably in the $3000 per week range but the video you bring home of you operating a Caterpillar D9 would make it worthwhile.\u00a0 A trip with the guys to fullfill a childhood dream.\u00a0 More macho than golf, fishing or diving.<\/p>\n

If this sounds like a good idea to you send me a comment in the area below.\u00a0 If it gets enough positive feedback Ken G. or somebody else might run with the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is an idea I\u2019ve been tossing around for years and never did anything with.\u00a0 I mentioned it to my friend Ken G. a few days ago and he liked it so much he thought I should test it.\u00a0 So here it is: a one week camp for upper middle class men who have always […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","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=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}