{"id":8747,"date":"2010-06-17T14:40:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T14:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/warren-buffett-pledge-as-part-of-the-600-billion\/"},"modified":"2010-06-17T14:40:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T14:40:01","slug":"warren-buffett-pledge-as-part-of-the-600-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/warren-buffett-pledge-as-part-of-the-600-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett pledge as part of the $600 billion challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/06\/15\/news\/newsmakers\/Warren_Buffett_Pledge_Letter.fortune\/index.htm'>Warren Buffett pledge as part of the $600 billion challenge<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve always had a lot of respect for Warren Buffett, but this article and the philanthropic efforts described in it are unique and humbling. \u00a0Definitely read the entire piece; here&rsquo;s one of my favorite passages:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&rsquo;ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fate&rsquo;s distribution of long straws is wildly capricious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett pledge as part of the $600 billion challenge I&rsquo;ve always had a lot of respect for Warren Buffett, but this article and the philanthropic efforts described in it are unique and humbling. \u00a0Definitely read the entire piece; here&rsquo;s one of my favorite passages: I&rsquo;ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/warren-buffett-pledge-as-part-of-the-600-billion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Warren Buffett pledge as part of the $600 billion challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}