{"id":353,"date":"2004-12-12T12:41:50","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T10:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=353"},"modified":"2004-12-12T12:41:50","modified_gmt":"2004-12-12T10:41:50","slug":"donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/books\/index.php\">finished reading<\/a> a biography about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>. My excuse for such a deed is that I&#8217;ve been watching <em>The Apprentice<\/em>, the reality TV show where a number of applicants get to compete against each other for the dubious privilege of working for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The book, <em>Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump<\/em>, is badly written, but was a quick pulpy read, and was worth the R10 I got it for from the stall in Muizenberg Village. Much of the book was gossip columnist stuff, but I perversely enjoyed having my cynicism about the American system further justified by reading about the corruption of the New York politicians, the vast amounts of &#8216;wealth&#8217; loaned to someone because of his smooth talking and his wealthy, influential connections. But I also feel some sympathy for the man. His most valuable lesson from his father was &#8220;You are a killer, you are a king&#8221;. He never learnt that being rich is being able to give more. He valued his life in terms of the possessions he had, and seemingly felt the same about his family.<\/p>\n<p>So, strangely, I have been inspired by the book. To do more with my wealth than he did. And to value the people in my life, and life itself, in all the ways I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished reading a biography about Donald Trump. My excuse for such a deed is that I&#8217;ve been watching The Apprentice, the reality TV show where a number of applicants get to compete against each other for the dubious privilege of working for Donald Trump. The book, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=353\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}