{"id":177725,"date":"2019-06-30T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/30\/tweet-of-the-day-119\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T23:14:00","slug":"tweet-of-the-day-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/30\/tweet-of-the-day-119\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Joan Robinson, Cambridge University<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ritholtz\/status\/1143896705970008065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally, someone has given a good reason for students to take an economics course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.\u201d \u2013Joan Robinson, Cambridge University &mdash; Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) June 26, 2019 Finally, someone has given a good reason for students to take an economics course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[544,392,464],"class_list":["post-177725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-academe","tag-economy","tag-good-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}