{"id":8246,"date":"2020-09-07T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8246"},"modified":"2020-09-07T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T19:59:10","slug":"your-education-is-not-yet-complete-lax-dfw-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8246","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Your education is not yet complete&#8221; LAX &#8211; DFW edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DC-10, depending on weather, consumed perhaps 150 minutes flying east to the &#8220;Metroplex&#8221; from Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p>Plenty of time to chat. <\/p>\n<p>I was somehow upgraded and had a rather enjoyable chat with a repeat entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>We discussed startups (his latest deal), people skills and evaluating markets.  After awhile, he asked if I had read &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlas_Shrugged\">Atlas Shrugged<\/a>&#8220;.  No, I replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your education is not yet complete&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As politicians demand us to restrict our energy use and deprive us of our livelihoods during mass illogical lockdowns, while the people are debating on social media whether 2+2=4, I can&#39;t help but be struck by this timely extract from Atlas Shrugged&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aXy1iguNmE\">pic.twitter.com\/aXy1iguNmE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Riva (@rivatez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rivatez\/status\/1303030876846997505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>And, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/viva-las-vegas\/\">Viva Las Vegas<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DC-10, depending on weather, consumed perhaps 150 minutes flying east to the &#8220;Metroplex&#8221; from Los Angeles. Plenty of time to chat. I was somehow upgraded and had a rather enjoyable chat with a repeat entrepreneur. We discussed startups (his latest deal), people skills and evaluating markets. After awhile, he asked if I had read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246"}],"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=8246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8247,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions\/8247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}