{"id":190841,"date":"2009-10-21T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/21\/deep-thought-239\/"},"modified":"2009-10-21T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T20:56:00","slug":"deep-thought-239","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/21\/deep-thought-239\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img12.imageshack.us\/img12\/7231\/mrs2154163.gif\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>I was talking with Sharon<sup>*<\/sup> about her <a href=\"http:\/\/mydisabilityresource.com\/\">special education consulting and advocacy business<\/a> today, and told her about some friends of mine who raise <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morgan_horse\">Morgan horses<\/a>, who would front load purchases before a given year, and then end load purchases after the end of the year, so as to create a profit every 5 years or so, because otherwise the IRS would call it a hobby, and would not allow them to deduct expenses from other income.<\/p>\n<p>Then I told her that this was completely different from her business.<\/p>\n<p>Then I thought about it, and told her it was completely <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">the same<\/span> as her business:  Both people have to shovel loads of horsesh$#, only hers <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">comes from school administrators<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, if you kid has unmet special education needs, you want to <a href=\"mailto:info@mydisabilityresource.com\">contact her<\/a>, she&#8217;s a pit bull, Or maybe a Tazmanian Devil, for her clients&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Love of my life, light of the cosmos, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\"><span>she who must be obeyed<\/span><\/span>, my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with Sharon* about her special education consulting and advocacy business today, and told her about some friends of mine who raise Morgan horses, who would front load purchases before a given year, and then end load purchases after the end of the year, so as to create a profit every 5 years &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1005,961,1197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-business","category-deep-thoughts","category-special-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190841"}],"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=190841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}