{"id":1120,"date":"2021-07-03T07:41:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T11:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2021-07-03T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T20:22:06","slug":"good-things-come-from-those-who-hustle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/good-things-come-from-those-who-hustle\/","title":{"rendered":"Good things come from those who hustle"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-hustlers-who-started-america-11625249906?mod=hp_opin_pos_1\">has an interview with a U Penn historian<\/a>, whose image of the Founding Fathers is similar to what I formed and tried to convey in my research on modern day entrepreneurs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p>In other words, Mr. McDougall doesn\u2019t flinch from acknowledging the fallenness of the founders\u2014but in contrast with the woke, he attributes it to their being human, not white or male or wealthy. He also celebrates the power and success of the institutions they created, but unlike the Whigs, he chalks it up to the fortuitous result of crafty self-interest, not \u201cAmerican exceptionalism.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>The Weekend Interview<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The \u2018Hustlers\u2019 Who Started America<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Historian Walter McDougall admires the founders\u2019 ideals\u2014but with a wink rather than a woke scowl or a reverent gaze.<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-hustlers-who-started-america-11625249906?mod=hp_opin_pos_1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-363304?width=1260&amp;size=custom_1845x1476\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal has an interview with a U Penn historian, whose image of the Founding Fathers is similar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-policy","category-ruminations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}