{"id":1121,"date":"2005-10-14T22:05:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T02:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/14\/the-life\/"},"modified":"2005-10-14T22:05:49","modified_gmt":"2005-10-15T02:05:49","slug":"the-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/14\/the-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2005\/10\/the_life\">John Gruber<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2005\/10\/the_life\">\r\n<p>And so the thinking of those who were surprised by this deal goes\r\nsomething like, <em>I thought Brent was doing great on his own, why would\r\nhe sell the app to a larger company and take a job working for them,\r\nwhen he was already living The Life, working only for himself?<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThe thing is, Ranchero was doing great, sales-wise. The problem is that they were doing so great that Simmons wasn&rsquo;t living The Life.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: And so the thinking of those who were surprised by this deal goes something like, I thought Brent was doing great on his own, why would he sell the app to a larger company and take a job working for them, when he was already living The Life, working only for himself? The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}