{"id":1468,"date":"2007-07-20T08:11:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T08:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-07-20T20:32:27","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T20:32:27","slug":"the_american_dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1468","title":{"rendered":"The American Dream&#8230;Kinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ogpaper.com\/news\/news-0757.html\" target=\"browser\">news reports<\/a> that the billionaire founder of Broadcom is alleged to have built a secret underground suite on the grounds of his mansion which he is alleged to have stocked with prostitutes and drugs is a titillating rumor, and obviously bad news for the man himself and his family (I won&#8217;t add to the Google hits by naming him). <\/p>\n<p>But riding home from dinner tonight, it occurred to me that true or not, it is actually great news for America. <\/p>\n<p>Because today when that news broke, millions of teenage boys went <i>&#8220;an underground lair stocked with hookers, Ecstasy and blow!! I&#8217;m gonna be a tech billionaire!!&#8221;<\/i> and immediately drank a Coke, sat down and cracked their textbooks. <\/p>\n<p>Twenty years from now, there will be whole industries founded by those kids, and all of us will benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;an underground lair stocked with hookers, Ecstasy and blow!! I&#8217;m gonna be a tech billionaire!!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}