{"id":113176,"date":"2025-11-13T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=113176"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:31:14","slug":"113176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=113176","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded\u2013here and there, now and then\u2013are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as \u201cbad luck.\u201d\u00a0 &#8212;<\/em>Robert Heinlein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded\u2013here and there, now and then\u2013are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=113176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113177,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113176\/revisions\/113177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}