{"id":2644,"date":"2006-12-03T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2006-12-03T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T15:51:00","slug":"delusional-aspirationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/12\/03\/11\/51\/delusional-aspirationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Delusional Aspirationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/articles\/2002\/cover\/november06\/22112006\/f422112006.html\">Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and a business strategist based in Marin County, California, goes even further. &#8220;Squatter cities are \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcvibrant,&#8221; he writes in a recent article on megacities. &#8220;Each narrow street is one long bustling market.&#8221; He sees in the explosive growth of &#8220;aspirational shanty towns&#8221; a cure for Third World poverty and an extraordinary profit\u00e2\u20ac\u201d making opportunity. &#8220;How does all this relate to business people in the developed world?&#8221; Brand asks. &#8220;One-fourth of humanity trying new things in new cities is a lot of potential customers, collaborators, and competitors.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and a business strategist based in Marin County, California, goes even further. &#8220;Squatter cities are \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcvibrant,&#8221; he writes in a recent article on megacities. &#8220;Each&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}