{"id":20362,"date":"2025-10-08T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20362"},"modified":"2025-09-28T10:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:23:37","slug":"doing-business-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20362","title":{"rendered":"Doing Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3896.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" data-attachment-id=\"20288\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=20288\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3896.jpeg?fit=1125%2C1500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1125,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 15 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1753005379&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.7649998656528&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00021701388888889&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3896\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3896.jpeg?fit=700%2C933&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3896.jpeg?resize=700%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20288\" style=\"width:514px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3896.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3896.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3896.jpeg?w=1125&amp;ssl=1 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;The chief business of the American people is business<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Calvin Coolidge<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The photo is from Mesa Verde NP. An ancient window serves as a frame for a short stone ally. This picture could have been taken in Israel or Cambodia. Ste structures that remain for us to see are the stone ones. I assume there were many more wood structures but rot, scavenging and fire have removed all traces of them. We are left with a distorted view of how the ancients lived. <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calvin Coolidge was not very verbose but this quote gives you a pretty good picture of what life was like during the first part of the 20th Century. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The chief business of the American people is business.\u201d Calvin Coolidge The photo is from Mesa Verde NP. An ancient window serves as a frame for a short stone ally. This picture could have been taken in Israel or Cambodia. Ste structures that remain for us to see are the stone ones. 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