{"id":872,"date":"2002-08-11T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2002-08-11T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/08\/dumber-than-dirt\/"},"modified":"2002-08-11T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2002-08-11T23:00:27","slug":"dumber-than-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/11\/dumber-than-dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumber than dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2002\/08\/11\/BU16764.DTL\">Bill Simon no whiz as high-tech investor<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But in looking over the millionaire GOP gubernatorial candidate&#8217;s background, it turns out that his firm, William E. Simon &#038; Sons, invested in a handful of tech companies at the height of the Internet bubble, most of which are now gasping for air. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a sad bastard Simon is. It&#8217;s fortunate he has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-simon11aug11.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dcalifornia\">his faith<\/a> to bolster his spirits.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Simon no whiz as high-tech investor But in looking over the millionaire GOP gubernatorial candidate&#8217;s background, it turns out that his firm, William E. Simon &#038; Sons, invested in a handful of tech companies at the height of the Internet bubble, most of which are now gasping for air. What a sad bastard Simon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/11\/dumber-than-dirt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dumber than dirt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-e4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}