{"id":6270,"date":"2013-10-27T16:42:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T23:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6270"},"modified":"2013-10-27T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T23:42:23","slug":"this-fellow-obviously-wished-he-were-a-talmudic-scholar-instead-of-a-real-estate-mogul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/this-fellow-obviously-wished-he-were-a-talmudic-scholar-instead-of-a-real-estate-mogul\/","title":{"rendered":"This fellow obviously wished he were a Talmudic scholar instead of a real estate mogul&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div>This fellow obviously wished he were a Talmudic scholar instead of a real estate mogul. If true, I wonder how many &#8220;successful&#8221; people are leading the life the environment (and others) want them to lead.<br \/> True, one has to assume that many &#8220;I wish I did x instead of y&#8221; are episodic rather than deep; but in general it is more painful to see misrouted success than misrouted failure.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/26\/business\/paul-reichmann-who-helped-develop-the-world-financial-center-dies-at-83.html?hpw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:10,&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;H&quot;}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net\/rsrc.php\/v2\/y4\/r\/-PAXP-deijE.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:11,&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;C&quot;}\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/26\/business\/paul-reichmann-who-helped-develop-the-world-financial-center-dies-at-83.html?hpw\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Reichmann, Who Helped Develop the World Financial Center, Dies at 83<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><em>nytimes.com<\/em><\/p>\n<div data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;M&quot;}\"><em>Mr. Reichmann took enormous business risks, made and lost billions of dollars and built extensively in Toronto, New York and London.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151791341948375&amp;id=13012333374\">This fellow obviously wished he were a Talmudic&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fellow obviously wished he were a Talmudic scholar instead of a real estate mogul. If true, I wonder how many &#8220;successful&#8221; people are leading the life the environment (and others) want them to lead. True, one has to assume that many &#8220;I wish I did x instead of y&#8221; are episodic rather than deep; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[764],"class_list":["post-6270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-paul-reichmann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6272,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions\/6272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}