{"id":1945,"date":"2005-11-15T12:54:56","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T12:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2005-11-15T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T12:54:56","slug":"the_evangelist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1945","title":{"rendered":"The Evangelist of Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/research\/articlesBySubject\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5108000&amp;subjectID=348975&amp;fsrc=nwl&amp;emailauth=%2527%2529%2520%253A7CPSGZ1%252A4%250A\">The Economist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&ldquo;FORGET space aliens and race cars&mdash;here&#8217;s a game that gives kids skills they can use for the rest of their lives.&rdquo; So says the blurb for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotshotbusiness.com\/\">Hot Shot Business<\/a>, an online game (www.hotshotbusiness.com) played each year by millions of &ldquo;budding entrepreneurs&rdquo; who get the chance to open their own pet spa, skateboard factory, landscape-gardening business or comic shop in Opportunity City. Players start marketing campaigns; change products, services and prices; and respond to demanding customers and big news events. And, &ldquo;as a self-funded entrepreneur, you&#8217;ll keep all the profits. But if anything goes wrong, well, you&#8217;re on your own.&rdquo;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist: &ldquo;FORGET space aliens and race cars&mdash;here&#8217;s a game that gives kids skills they can use for the rest of their lives.&rdquo; So says the blurb for Hot Shot Business, an online game (www.hotshotbusiness.com) played each year by millions of &ldquo;budding entrepreneurs&rdquo; who get the chance to open their own pet spa, skateboard factory, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}